On 2018/04/05 22:34, Brian Callahan wrote:
> 
> On 02/06/18 16:38, Brian Callahan wrote:
> > 
> > On 1/29/2018 9:53 AM, Brian Callahan wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 01/19/18 18:31, Brian Callahan wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On 1/9/2018 10:27 PM, Brian Callahan wrote:
> > > > > Hi ports --
> > > > > 
> > > > > Upstream for shells/osh renamed the project. It is now
> > > > > called etsh. The attached tarball provides a new shells/etsh
> > > > > port that does the expected upgrade if you've got osh on
> > > > > your machine. Not included in this tarball is the required
> > > > > quirks entry for osh=>etsh, and the removal of shells/osh,
> > > > > both of which I will take care of with the import.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I chatted with Pascal a bit, and I'll be taking over as
> > > > > MAINTAINER as part of the transition.
> > > > > 
> > > > > ---
> > > > > pkg/DESCR:
> > > > > The Etsh Project provides two ports of the original /bin/sh from Sixth
> > > > > Edition (V6) UNIX (circa 1975).
> > > > > 
> > > > > Etsh(1) is an enhanced, backward-compatible port of the Sixth Edition
> > > > > Thompson shell. Tsh(1) is an unenhanced port of the shell, and glob(1)
> > > > > is a port of its global command. Together, tsh and glob provide a user
> > > > > interface which is backward compatible with that provided by the Sixth
> > > > > Edition Thompson shell and global command, but without the obvious
> > > > > enhancements found in etsh.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The original Thompson shell was principally written by Ken Thompson of
> > > > > Bell Labs.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Additionally, this project includes the following shell utilities:
> > > > > * if(1) - conditional command (ported from Sixth Edition UNIX)
> > > > > * goto(1) - transfer command (ported from Sixth Edition UNIX)
> > > > > * fd2(1) - redirect from/to file descriptor 2
> > > > > ---
> > > > > 
> > > > > Works correctly, all tests pass on amd64 and armv7.
> > > > > 
> > > > > OK?
> > > > > 
> > > > > ~Brian
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Ping.
> > > 
> > > Ping. New tarball because upstream released new version 5.0.2
> > > 
> > > OK?
> > > 
> > > ~Brian
> > > 
> > 
> > Ping? I know the v6 shell is probably not on most people's radars but it
> > would be helpful at least insofar as it would replace a port of
> > now-rotting code with something that's actively maintained.
> > 
> > ~Brian
> 
> Ping. Would still like to get this in and remove osh.
> 
> Tarball reattached.
> 
> ~Brian
> 


Needs some @shell markers in PLIST, If you're going to have osh
auto-update to this via quirks (which seems likely with the @pkgpath
marker) I think you'll need to set EPOCH in this, iirc pkg_add still
does a version check for these.

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