Re: pkg/36259: sysutils/xentools30 has test == portability problems

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/36259; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/36259: sysutils/xentools30 has test == portability problems
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 10:21:09 +0200

 On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:58:02AM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
 > 
 > > They certainly don't care as they're developing for linux/bash;
 > > and I certainly won't spend time fixing scripts that are linux-specific
 > > anyway. And I'll reject any fix that add more stuff to patches/ than
 > > necessary.
 > >  
 > 
 > Would upstream really reject such a patch?
 
 I can't see why they would want to fix linux-only scripts.
 
 > If that is the case we should at least put
 > USE_TOOLS+= bash in the package.
 
 No, the package doesn't use bash. Once again, THESE FILES ARE NOT USED ON
 NETBSD.
 
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