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Updating Information for FreeBSD ports developers
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This file is maintained by Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> and
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copyrighted by the FreeBSD Foundation.
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This file contains major changes to ports and the ports infrastructure.
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Intended audience are ports committers, maintainers and other
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developers. User oriented changes should be submitted for inclusion
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in the release notes.
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All ports committers are allowed to commit to this file.
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20040304:
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New variable MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE_EXTENDED. It has the
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ten official sourceforge.net download mirrors, whereas
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MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE only has five. To check if your
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port is mirrored there, go to
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<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/${MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR}/>
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click on ${DISTFILES} and you'll see five or ten mirrors,
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corresponding to the variables above.
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20040226:
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The default version of Ruby is now 1.8 on all platforms
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including the i386.
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Users on the i386 platform need to follow the instructions
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described in the UPDATING file to cope with this upgrade.
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Next time ruby is major upgraded, you won't need to do this
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kind of messy work because some subtle changes have been made
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to the ruby port infrastructure to make it easier to handle
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multiple versions of ruby.
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20040217:
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Mozilla will now default to using GTK2, and will only compile
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against Gtk+-1.2 if explicitly requested. This is in exact
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opposite to the old behaviour.
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The valid values of WITH_MOZILLA are now:
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mozilla (www/mozilla, GTK2)
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mozilla-devel (www/mozilla-devel, GTK2)
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mozilla-gtk1 (www/mozilla-gtk1, GTK1)
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mozilla-devel-gtk1 (www/mozilla-devel-gtk1, GTK1)
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As before, WITH_MOZILLA can be set in /etc/make.conf, but doing
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so is not advised unless you desire the development versions.
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GTK2 browsers will automatically compile against GTK2 mozilla,
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and GTK1 browsers (galeon1, galeon1, and galeon1) will
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automatically compile against GTK1.
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Again, the only people who will need to take action are those
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who desire development versions (which are inactive at this time
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anyway). Those who want GTK1 mozilla-devel must set
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WITH_MOZILLA=mozilla-devel-gtk1 or they will be pleasantly
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surprised with their very own GTK2 installation on the next
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update.
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WITH_MOZILLA=mozilla-gtk2 and WITH_MOZILLA=mozilla-devel-gtk2
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are still honoured for the time being, but their use is
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now deprecated. Any new ports are not required to consider
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their values, and so eventually WITH_MOZILLA _will_ have to
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be changed.
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Hopefully galeon2 can catch up to peoples' expectations from
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galeon1 soon, and we can remove the GTK1 ports altogether.
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20040204:
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The bsd.php.mk file has been moved out of the lang/php4 port
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into the Mk directory. This will make it much easier to include
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PHP support in PHP-dependent ports. Instead of including
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bsd.php.mk directly, a port can simply set USE_PHP=yes, and the
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ports system with Do the Right Thing.
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All trailing whitespace has been removed from bsd.port.mk.
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Enhance the new OPTIONS code by only including saved options if
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the port defines OPTIONS, attempt to use LATEST_LINK as the
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unique name for a port (fall back to ${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${PORTNAME}
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otherwise), bring the ===> messages in line with the existing
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ones by using PKGNAME instead of PORTNAME, use PKGNAME in the
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dialog, use ECHO_CMD instead of ECHO_MSG to write the
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OPTIONSFILE, display a message during compilation indicating
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that user-specified options have been found, and make the output
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of the showconfig target a little more user-friendly.
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A new USE_ICONV macro has been added that takes the place of an
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explicit LIB_DEPENDS on converters/libiconv. This will help
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with future shared lib version bumps.
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A new USE_GETTEXT macro has been added that takes the place of
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an explicit LIB_DEPENDS on devel/gettext. This will help with
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future shared lib version bumps.
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Module::Build is a system for building, testing, and installing
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Perl modules. It will eventually replace the obsoleted
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ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Many new Perl modules have already
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switched to using Build.PL instead of Makefile.PL. To
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facilitate building those modules, a new PERL_MODBUILD macro has
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been added. Use that in place of PERL_CONFIGURE when porting
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Perl modules that make use of the Module::Build framework.
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Certain ports want to check for the availability of SDL
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libraries before including them. This change adds a new
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WANT_SDL macro similar to WANT_GNOME. By setting this, the
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porter indicates that her port can optional use SDL if present
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on the system. WANT_SDL should be defined _before_
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bsd.port.pre.mk is included. After including bsd.port.pre.mk,
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the list of available SDL components will be returned in the
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HAVE_SDL macro. For details on how to process this component
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list, refer to bsd.sdl.mk.
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The OpenBSD and NetBSD projects diverged from the FreeBSD ports
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tree years ago, and it no longer make sense to include obsolete
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references to incorrect paths in the FreeBSD ports system. This
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change removes the NetBSD and OpenBSD PORTSDIR compatibility
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bits from bsd.port.mk.
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The comment for PKGDIR read, ``A direction containing any
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package creating file.'' The word ``direction'' should be
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``directory.'' This has been fixed.
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A new DIRNAME macro has been added that points to
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/usr/bin/dirname. All direct use of dirname in ports can be
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switched to this macro.
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Direct use of commands dirname, id, and rm have been corrected
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to use their macro equivalents instead. Some useless ${HEAD}
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-n 1 statements have been removed. A strange comment in the
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do-install target and an out of place ``fi'' have been fixed as
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well.
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On 5-CURRENT after the 5.2-RELEASE split, the default Perl
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version has been updated from 5.6.1 to 5.8.2. As well, some
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Perl definitions in bsd.port.mk have been moved to their correct
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locations which corrects the PERL_LEVEL definition.
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The following optimizations have been added to the ports system
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to speed up recursive operations such as make describe, make
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index, make ignorelist, etc. bsd.gnome.mk is now only included
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if a port defines USE_GNOME, WANT_GNOME, and/or USE_GTK. More
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variables are cached and passed down through bsd.port.subdir.mk.
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Perl is no longer invoked when a simple ``echo'' will do. More
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subshell variable assignments have been hidden behind
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conditionals so that the commands are not spawned everytime.
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Finally, dependency lists are only constructed if ports actually
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declare dependencies. These optimizations give make index
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approximately a 43% speedup.
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If CPUFLAGS is not defined (this _CPUCFLAGS is empty), trying
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to remove _CPUCFLAGS from CFLAGS will result in an error. This
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change fixes that.
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On recent versions of 5.X, /etc/rc.subr exists, and there is no
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reason to install another copy in ${LOCALBASE}/etc. The reason
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this was ever done was to workaround some build issues on bento.
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However, testing OSVERSION seems to work in spite of those build
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issues.
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The ports system now supports MySQL 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0.
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Also, the ability to scale to newer versions was also but in
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place.
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An .endif comment indicated that the .if block checked
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WANT_MYSQL when, in fact, it was checking WANT_MYSQL_VER. This
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has been corrected.
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The PTHREAD{CFLAGS,LIBS} macros have been made overridable on
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all versions of FreeBSD to allow for alternate threading
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implementations (e.g. -lc_r, -lthr, -mt, etc.). The default
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threading library has been changed to -lpthread from -lc_r on
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-CURRENT.
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The new SIZE support broke distfiles fetching on FreeBSD < 4.8.
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On those versions of FreeBSD, the SIZE distfile attribute is now
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ignored. Also, defining DISABLE_SIZE in, for example,
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/etc/make.conf, will ignore the SIZE attribute on all versions
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of FreeBSD. This is useful with alternate values for FETCH_CMD.
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A new vulnerabilities database has been added to the ports
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system in order to keep more accurate, up-to-date, track of
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security vulnerabilities. The ports system now knows how to
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query that database and dynamically prevents the installation
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of vulnerable ports.
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In order to allow for more rapid development of the package
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tools, the ports system will prefer to use pkg_* tools found in
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${LOCALBASE} over those in the base system. However, all PKG_*
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macros are still overridable.
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A new physical category, net-mgmt, has been created to house
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network management ports.
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The /var/db/port.mkversion file never really took off, and is
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now very obsolete. Replace the code used to generate and check
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this file with a simple OSVERSION check. The ports system now
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requires FreeBSD 4.3 or higher.
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The last round of bsd.*.mk changes broke ports that had
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duplicate distinfo entries (e.g. linux_base). This is now
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fixed. Along with this fix, only distfiles with a bad checksum
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will be refetched, where as distfiles missing from distinfo will
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not be refetched.
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The PLIST_{DIRS,FILES} macros were passed to the final package
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list unchanged by PLIST_SUB. This is not always desirable.
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Now, those macros are passed through PLIST_SUB.
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The previous OPTIONS code assumed users would be running port
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build as root. If this was not the case, OPTIONS configuration
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would fail. Now, the bits of the config and rmconfig targets
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that require write access to system directories are run under
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SU_CMD.
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The makesum target will now add a SIZE attribute for each
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distfile by default. This can be overridden by defining NO_SIZE
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in a port's Makefile. Note: this could probably be expanded to
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omit SIZE attributes for specific distfiles in the future.
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20040129:
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SIZE lines in distinfo files: if you set USE_SIZE when you do "make
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makesum", the byte sizes of the distfiles will be listed in the
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distinfo file. Then, if a distfile is replaced on its master site with
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one of a different size than that listed, "make fetch" will fail with a
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"size mismatch" error before downloading the file and the user will be
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asked to fetch the file by hand. Also, a user will know the size of
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the distfiles before fetching and decide to fetch later.
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20040129:
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Start of CHANGES file.
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FORMAT:
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This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
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breakages or added features in tracking ports. Not all things will be
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listed here, and it only starts on January 29, 2004.
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Copyright information:
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Copyright 2004 FreeBSD Foundation All Rights Reserved.
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Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without
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modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this
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document are permitted without further permission from the author.
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THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY FREEBSD FOUNDATION ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
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DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL WARNER LOSH BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,
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INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
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(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
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SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
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STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING
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IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
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POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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If you find this document useful, and you want to, you may buy the
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author a beer.
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Contact Erwin Lansing if you have any questions about your use of
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this document.
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$FreeBSD$
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