On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:26:05PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: > It would be easy to maintain 4.x compatibility in Yahoo's package > system. They probably only need a relatively small number of ports, and > there is no need to stay in sync with changes to the ports > infrastructure. Those changes are almost all completely gratuitous from > the point of view of deploying packages within a site since they are > changes to the *ports* infrastructure. The FreeBSD *package* > infrastructure has changed almost not at all over time (but yahoo have > their own package system anyway). > > To the extent that the vendor applications still support old versions, > the model would be the same: vendor source + patches --> binary. You > can do that with a system based on the ports collection from last > century if you like :) > > I would guess that Yahoo actually forked the ports system long ago (in > the 2.x days?) or never used it directly, and either port their changes > directly or by taking patches from freebsd ports.
It's pretty easy to use current ports system with RELENG_4, I do this sometimes. Just have following lines in /etc/make.conf: # 4.x stuff PTHREAD_CFLAGS= -D_THREAD_SAFE PTHREAD_LIBS= -pthread # may be, "ln -s /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rc.subr /etc/rc.subr" too RC_SUBR= ${LOCALBASE}/etc/rc.subr # only if we force port to use base system's port 5.005 PERL_VERSION= 5.00503 PERL_VER= 5.005 PERL_ARCH= ${ARCH}-freebsd PERL5= ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/perl${PERL_VERSION} PERL= ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/perl Then, for perl, one needs small patch to bsd.ports.mk: --- bsd.port.mk.orig Wed Oct 17 18:12:24 2007 +++ bsd.port.mk Sun Feb 24 00:33:48 2008 @@ -1420,8 +1420,8 @@ SITE_PERL_REL?= lib/perl5/site_perl/${PERL_VER} SITE_PERL?= ${LOCALBASE}/${SITE_PERL_REL} -PERL5= ${LOCALBASE}/bin/perl${PERL_VERSION} -PERL= ${LOCALBASE}/bin/perl +PERL5?= ${LOCALBASE}/bin/perl${PERL_VERSION} +PERL?= ${LOCALBASE}/bin/perl .endif # !defined(_PERL_REFACTORING_COMPLETE) This way, I continue to update small standalone mail servers with new versions of security/clamav (those consoleless 4.11 boxes have no hope to be upgraded to something newer). Sometimes there is a need to patch port's Makefile a little, f.e. when if redefines PTHREAD_LIBS unconditionally (bad, bad habit). Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"