On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Christian Weisgerber
<na...@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> There are a number of ports that hardcode the OpenBSD version into
> paths. Consequently, each time the OpenBSD version is incremented,
> some poor guy needs to search the tree, go through the list, and
> bump the package version of these ports.
>
> Espie has suggested that we should tackle this problem at the root
> and try to remove the useless version from the path names. If
> anybody wants to look into this, here's a breakdown of the current
> offenders:
>
> * Ruby
> Specifically, binary modules are placed under MODRUBY_ARCH which is
> something like ${MACHINE_ARCH}-openbsd${OSREV}. By comparison, Perl
> simply uses ${MACHINE_ARCH}-openbsd.
> databases/ruby-bdb
> databases/ruby-ldap
> devel/ruby-ncurses
> devel/subversion
> lang/rubinius
> lang/ruby/1.8
> lang/ruby/1.9
> net/rrdtool
> net/ruby-pcap
> net/ruby-pcaprub-msf
> textproc/eruby
> textproc/gonzui
> textproc/ruby-hyperestraier
> www/ruby-passenger
> x11/kde/bindings3
I'm currently testing a patch that switches this to
${MACHINE_ARCH}-openbsd. Should hopefully go in soon.
Jeremy
