Re: pkg/41571: devel/rt3 version bump, take maintainership

["Peter C. Lai" <peter%simons-rock.edu@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41571; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Peter C. Lai" <peter%simons-rock.edu@localhost>
To: Quentin Garnier <cube%cubidou.net@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/41571: devel/rt3 version bump, take maintainership
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:41:52 -0400

 On 2009-06-10 11:36:55PM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote:
 > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:20:00PM +0000, peter%simons-rock.edu@localhost 
 > wrote:
 > > >Number:         41571
 > > >Category:       pkg
 > > >Synopsis:       devel/rt3 version bump, take maintainership
 > > >Confidential:   no
 > > >Severity:       non-critical
 > > >Priority:       low
 > > >Responsible:    pkg-manager
 > > >State:          open
 > > >Class:          change-request
 > > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > > >Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 10 21:20:00 +0000 2009
 > > >Originator:     Peter C. Lai
 > > >Release:        NA, pkgsrc-only
 > > >Organization:
 > > Bard College at Simon's Rock
 > > >Environment:
 > > NA, pkgsrc-only
 > > >Description:
 > > Take maintainership of devel/rt3 package (CC: cube)
 > > 
 > > Version bump from 3.8.1 to 3.8.3 with Makefile{.install} and PLIST fixes.
 > > >How-To-Repeat:
 > > 
 > > >Fix:
 > > patch here:
 > > 
 > > http://hope.simons-rock.edu/~peter/pkgsrc/devel/rt3/rt3.diff.txt
 > 
 > +SUBST_SED.path=             -s 's,/bin:/usr/bin,/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/bin,'
 > 
 > Two things about that:  first, don't hard-code /usr/pkg, use LOCALBASE.
 > And then, why bother providing a list?  I haven't looked at the code
 > where this substitution is supposed to happen, but if it is to help find
 > a program provided by RTs, you should just put the full path of said
 > program at the relevant place instead;  as a package provider, you can
 > afford that.
 
 1. ok
 2. the path is hardcoded in the distfiles, since they assume perl lives
 in /usr/bin I believe...(I think it's more of a protection against someone
 not having LOCALBASE in their path) dunno.
 
 If you think I should take that out, let me know.
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