Updating Information for FreeBSD ports developers

This file is maintained by Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> and

copyrighted by the FreeBSD Foundation.

This file contains major changes to ports and the ports infrastructure.

Intended audience are ports committers, maintainers and other

developers. User oriented changes should be submitted for inclusion

in the release notes.

All ports committers are allowed to commit to this file.

20050207:

AUTHOR: portmgr@FreeBSD.org

The following changes were committed:

* Change bento to pointyhat names in comments.

* Document DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES variable.

* Add WWW: line for 'search' target.

* Speedup check-vulnerable invokation, if portaudit is installed.

* Run install-info for all .info files.

* Run add-plist-docs more strictly and prevent some situations

with leftover files in the future.

* Introduce two new variables: MASTER_PORT and SLAVE_PORT.

The results from these variables is only used as information for

users.

* Honour OPTIONS if PACKAGE_BUILDING or BATCH are defined.

* Move all USE_GCC entries to new file - bsd.gcc.mk. 'test-gcc'

target allows users to check gcc version if USE_GCC is used.

Give maintainers opportunity to add '+' character to USE_GCC version

for using specified and higher versions.

Example:

USE_GCC=3.3+

builds ports with gcc version 3.3 and higher (3.4, 4.0).

* Install startup scripts with the help of USE_RC_SUBR variable.

* Add three new targets: config-recursive, rmconfig-recursive and

config-conditional. You can set or delete OPTIONS for all

dependencies before every build. config-conditional target is

used to skip configuring ports which have already been

configured.

* Fix using of WANT_PGSQL_VER variable if postgresql is already

installed.

20041231:

AUTHOR: netchild@FreeBSD.org

USE_LINUX_PREFIX doesn't implies USE_LINUX anymore.

20041209:

AUTHOR: portmgr@FreeBSD.org

The following changes were committed:

* Define new macros: DATE, FMT, MKTEMP, OBJDUMP, and use

command macro SORT.

* Change layout of comments to 4 column tabs, remove lots

of spaces and eight-column-tabs.

* Introduce 2 new variables: SUB_FILES and SUB_LIST:

Example:

SUB_FILES= pkg-message pkg-install

SUB_LIST+= "VERSION=${VERSION}"

This looks for ${FILESDIR}/pkg-message.in and ${FILESDIR}/pkg-install.in

Substitutions in SUB_LIST are applied to these files and the

output is redirected to ${WRKDIR}.

PKGMESSAGE will be set to ${WRKDIR}/pkg-message.

PKGINSTALL will be set to ${WRKDIR}/pkg-install.

* Document DEPRECATED and EXPIRATION_DATE variables.

* Sanitize the intermittent output by the build infrastructure

so that cutting and pasting from it no longer interferes

with GNATS-tags.

* Honour configure arguments for USE_XLIB if USE/WITH_LIBTOOL_ is

used.

* Properly document 'describe' target.

* Properly remove directories at deinstallation time if ports sets

a non-standard PREFIX.

* Defaults INDEXFILE to INDEX-6 on 6-CURRENT.

20041119:

AUTHOR: portmgr@FreeBSD.org

The following changes were committed:

* Fix INDEX build if MAINTAINER is not defined.

* Remove USE_QT2 option, since qt2 is obsolete.

* Better define and explain ARCH option.

* Add new script Tools/make_readmes, to speedup 'readmes'

target. Avoid recursing into individual port directories and run

it at top level, after the category README.html files have been

created.

* Fix 'search' target and enable a case-insensetive search on 5-x.

* Extend 'seach' target and enable search by categories.

* Remove tk42 and tcl76 categories since they're obsolete.

* Introduce DISTVERSION variable, that can be set instead of

PORTVERSION and is automatically converted in a conforming PORTVERSION.

Example:

DISTVERSION= 10Alpha3

extends 10Alpha3 to 10.a3

DISTVERSION= 3Beta7-pre2

extends 3Beta7-pre2 to 3.b7.p2

* Use --suffix option instead of -b for patch(1), to make it

compatible with BSD patch(1).

* Fix {WANT,WITH}_MYSQL_VER behavior, to deal with conflicting

versions.

20041116:

AUTHOR: gnome@FreeBSD.org

The way OMF files are handled has been changed to use the new INSTALLS_OMF

macro (similar to INSTALLS_SHLIB). Details about the new macro can be found

at http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/porting.html and bsd.gnome.mk.

20041113:

AUTHOR: portmgr@FreeBSD.org

Since INDEX version in CVS is always too old, portmgr decided to

remove it. You will still be able to build your own INDEX or use

'fetchindex' target in /usr/ports/.

20041109:

AUTHOR: gnome@FreeBSD.org

The way GConf schema files are handled has been changed to use the new

GCONF_SCHEMAS macro (similar to MAN). Details about the new macro can be

found at http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/porting.html and bsd.gnome.mk.

20040803:

AUTHOR: ade@FreeBSD.org

As part of the ongoing autotools cleanup, devel/autoconf has been

replaced with devel/autoconf253, and devel/automake with devel/automake15.

Consumers of the various autotools knobs from bsd.autotools.mk should not

notice any differences. This update completes the transition of autotools

to true versioned packages (cf: tcl/tk)

20040723:

AUTHOR: anholt@FreeBSD.org

The XFREE86_VERSION variable is replaced by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable.

XFREE86_VERSION may no longer be used by ports Makefiles. X_WINDOW_SYSTEM may

currently be set to xorg, xfree86-4, and xfree86-3 (please use :L in checking

it). Several X_*_PORT variables are provided by bsd.port.mk which map to the

appropriate port for the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM chosen.

20040719:

AUTHOR: ale@FreeBSD.org

There has been a big update to PHP ports and bsd.php.mk to add more

flexibility and new features.

Now a port may depend on a specific set of PHP extensions. To do so,

simply replace:

USE_PHP= yes

with:

USE_PHP= ext1 ext2 ext3 ...

in the port Makefile. A list of all PHP extensions is included in bsd.php.mk.

If the requirement is a build dependency too, the port should also define:

USE_PHP_BUILD=yes

Moreover, the new knob WANT_PHP_SCR has been added to indicate that the port

requires the 'php' binary to run.

Last but not least, many common operations to build/install/register a

PHP extension can now be omitted from the port Makefile if it defines:

USE_PHPEXT= yes

For more information on this point and on additional variables, see

bsd.php.mk.

20040717:

AUTHOR: eik@FreeBSD.org

OpenLDAP version 2.2 is now the default.

When your port links against the openldap client libraries use

USE_OPENLDAP= yes

and do not depend on a particular version. A user (or package

building cluster) can select the desired flavour with

WANT_OPENLDAP_VER and WANT_OPENLDAP_SASL, but these must not

be used in ports Makefiles.

20040709:

AUTHOR: portmgr@FreeBSD.org

USE_LIBTOOL_VER now configures a port to use the ports version of libtool

instead of its included version. This was put in place to reduce the

number of ad hoc patches to individual ports' libtools to prevent .la

file installation as well as fix various threading problems.

To restore the previous libtool behavior, use the new macro,

USE_INC_LIBTOOL_VER. It works the exact same way as USE_LIBTOOL_VER

in that it takes a libtool version as its argument.

For example, to use the included version of libtool with extra hacks

provided by libtool-1.5, add the following to your Makefile:

USE_INC_LIBTOOL_VER= 15

To use the ports version of libtool-1.5, add the following to

your Makefile:

USE_LIBTOOL_VER= 15

Note: these macros are mutually exclusive. Your port should only include

one or the other if it needs to make use of libtool.

20040707:

AUTHOR: gnome@FreeBSD.org

The way GConf schema files are installed has changed to support the upcoming

GNOME 2.8 GConf. Details about the change can be found at

http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/porting.html. All existing ports have

been converted to the new style, and portlint has been updated to flag

old-style GConf schema installation.

20040610:

AUTHOR: portmgr@FreeBSD.org

The following behavioural or feature changes were committed:

* Support verbose index builds with INDEX_VERBOSE

* Support glob expressions in USE_GETTEXT to allow more flexibility

in the face of future gratuitous library version bumps by the gettext

developers:

USE_GETTEXT=yEs # Works as before (case-insensitive)

USE_GETTEXT=[5-7] # Accepts any of those libintl.so.x versions

# in the LIB_DEPENDS

* Extend 'make search' support to allow much more flexible searching

From the PR:

Besides the good old key and name variables, this patch adds

support for path, info, maint, cat, bdeps, and rdeps, which match

on the appropriate fields, plus their exclusion counterparts: xkey,

xname, etc.

Examples:

Find all ports whose names contain "pear-" but not "html" or "http":

make search name=pear- xname='ht(tp|ml)'

Find ports whose names contain "pear-" and which don't have apache

listed in build-time dependencies:

make search name=pear- xbdeps=apache

The positive variables (name, key, maint, etc) are AND-ed, their

negative versions are OR-ed; in other words, matching any x-

variable will cause the port to be skipped, mismatch on any non-x-

variable will cause it to be skipped.

Examples:

Find ports that are both in the www category and maintained by

Thierry Thomas:

make search maint=thierry@ path=/www/

Find ports in the archivers category that are either not orphaned

or don't have "zip" in their names (contrived):

make search cat=archivers xmaint=ports@freebsd xname=zip

It is possible to select fields to display.

Example:

Find PEAR ports that don't build-depend on apache, displaying only

Port:, Path:, and Info: lines:

make search name=pear- xbdeps=apache display=name,path,info

Case-sensitivity can now be turned of with icase=1.

Example:

Find ports with @freebsd.org maintainer addresses without the

"proper" capitalization (@FreeBSD.org), display their paths and

maintainer addresses:

make search maint=@freebsd\\.org icase=0 display=maint,path

The key and xkey variables can be limited in scope to displayed fields

by setting keylim to 1.

Example:

Find ports that contain "apache" in either of the name, path, info

fields, ignore the rest of the record (dependencies, maintainer

address, etc):

make search key=apache display=name,path,info keylim=1

The following variables can be set e.g. in /etc/make.conf to

control default search behaviour:

PORTSEARCH_DISPLAY_FIELDS?=name,path,info,maint,index,bdeps,rdeps

PORTSEARCH_KEYLIM?=0

PORTSEARCH_XKEYLIM?=0

PORTSEARCH_IGNORECASE?=1

* Extend USE_PERL5_BUILD and USE_PERL5 to add EXTRACT and PATCH

dependencies

* While building index, treat non-existent dependencies as fatal.

Previously the error was being hidden by the stderr

redirection.

* Don't always retry BROKEN ports when package building (it is taking

too much time to continually rebuild ports that are usually going

to really be broken). Set TRYBROKEN if you want to attempt a

build of a BROKEN port.

20040604:

AUTHOR: ade@FreeBSD.org

Over the past few weeks, we have been testing the next

incarnation of ports/Mk/bsd.autotools.mk on the road to bringing

at least some semblance of sanity back to this corner of the

ports collection.

By far and away the easiest way to see the changes will be to

view the new file once committed, but here is a summary of the

changes:

1. USE_LIBTOOL, USE_AUTOCONF, USE_AUTOHEADER, USE_AUTOMAKE have

been fully deprecated. Ports attempting to use these variables

after the commit will error out, and most obviously break INDEX

generation, with a helpful error message. Instead, ports must

now specifically choose the version of any of these tools that

they need with the corresponding USE_*_VER variables. Note that

these variables understand any and all versions of autotools ports

in the tree, there is no longer a need to have specific version

numbers hardcoded in the infrastructure of bsd.autotools.mk

(as there is now). In particular, this will immediately open up

automake18 and autoconf259 for general use and beating.

2. Similarly for WANT_LIBTOOL, WANT_AUTOCONF, and WANT_AUTOMAKE.

Again, these have been fully deprecated, and the equivalent

WANT_*_VER versions should be used.

In order to preserve existing behavior for these variables, please

note the 20040314 entry in ports/CHANGES for the appropriate

version numbers to use for any ports in the GNATS queue.

Both WANT_* and USE_* bring in the relevant tool as a build

dependency, and set up a reasonably large number of variables

pointing to the right programs to be using in the port. The

only difference at the moment, is that USE_* will run an extra

autotools-related configuration step, whereas WANT_* merely

requests the environment.

3. The helper knob USE_LIBLTDL has been added which currently

simply adds a LIB dependency on the libltdl port.

4. Three new variables have been introduced,

WANT_{LIBTOOL,AUTOCONF,AUTOMAKE}_RUN=yes. These variables will

do nothing by themselves (a Work-In-Progress), but if the

appropriate autotool version is defined (either through

WANT_*_VER or USE_*_VER), this will add the relevant dependency

to RUN_DEPENDS.

Steps 3 and 4 now essentially negate the need for any kind of

direct dependency within a non-autotools port Makefile on

devel/autoconf*, devel/automake*, devel/libtool*, and devel/libltdl.

20040416:

AUTHOR: java@FreeBSD.org

There has been a couple of bsd.java.mk tweaks and fixes.

. Features from Stage 2 has been removed. A port can no

longer use the JDK dependency features by setting JAVA_HOME.

Use JAVA_PREFERRED_PORT instead (see below).

. The default JDK port now depends on OS version:

java/diablo-jdk13 for 4.x, and java/jdk14 for 5.x

. It is now possible for the user (and the porters) to

define a list of preferred JDK ports to build and run ports.

The port will use the first JDK port from the list that

matches the requirements specified in the Makefile.

JAVA_PREFERRED_PORT contains a list of suitable JDK ports

(sorted by preference). Names for JDKs may be found in

bsd.java.mk, listed in ${_JAVA_PORTS_ALL} (e.g.

"JAVA_PORT_NATIVE_BSDJAVA_1_4").

. JAVA_PORT_VERSION is now set to the full version number

of the chosen JDK (e.g. "1.4.2"). Porters will find hints

regarding how to obtain the same behavior as before in the

header of bsd.java.mk.

20040414:

AUTHOR: gnome@FreeBSD.org

When writing a port that uses GTK+ 2.X, you can now list the dependency

with "USE_GNOME=gtk20" which is preferable to LIB_DEPENDS because the

GTK+ library version only needs to be changed in bsd.gnome.mk.

Please see http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/porting.html for all

the available GNOME components as well as detailed instructions on

creating ports that use the GNOME infrastructure.

20040404:

AUTHOR: gnome@FreeBSD.org

The glib20 and gtk20 ports were updated to 2.4.0. This new version

is completely source and binary compatible with the previous 2.2.x

series. However, certain API calls have been deprecated. If your

port defines the following macros, they may refuse to build with

the new versions of glib20 and gtk20:

GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED

GDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED

G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED

The temporary solution is to either patch your port's Makefiles to,

or use an in-place regular expression to remove these macros. The

more permanent solution is to wait until the port's authors update

their code to use current API calls.

20040402:

AUTHOR: java@FreeBSD.org

There has been a big update to bsd.java.mk. However, this update

is mostly backwards compatible, so it shouldn't affect most java

port maintainers. There is some new functionality and minor

changes worth documenting here though.

bsd.java.mk now provides a new set of macros to be used by ports that

require a JDK. When USE_JAVA is set, the following variables may be set

in order to give to precision regarding the requirements of the port:

. JAVA_VERSION

A list of space-separated suitable java versions for the

port. An optional "+" allows you to specify a range of versions.

(allowed values: 1.1[+] 1.2[+] 1.3[+] 1.4[+])

(NOTE: Used to be set by bsd.java.mk)

. JAVA_OS

A list of space-separated suitable JDK port operating systems

for the port. (allowed values: native linux)

(NOTE: Used to be set by bsd.java.mk)

. JAVA_VENDOR

A list of space-separated suitable JDK port vendors for

the port. (allowed values: freebsd bsdjava sun ibm blackdown)

(NOTE: Used to be set by bsd.java.mk)

. JAVA_BUILD

When set, it means that the selected JDK port should be

added to build dependencies for the port.

. JAVA_RUN

This variable works exactly the same as JAVA_BUILD but

regarding run dependencies.

Here are some of the macros defined after setting USE_JAVA:

. JAVA_PORT

The name of the JDK port (e.g. java/jdk14)

. JAVA_HOME

The home of the JDK port in the local base

. JAVA_PORT_VERSION

The version of the JDK port.

(NOTE: Used to be JAVA_VERSION, see above)

. JAVA_PORT_OS

The operating system used by the JDK port.

(NOTE: Used to be JAVA_OS, see above)

. JAVA_PORT_VENDOR

The vendor of the JDK port.

(NOTE: Used to be JAVA_VENDOR, see above)

Plus many macros for the commonly used java executables:

APPLETVIEWER, JAR, JAVA, JAVAC, JAVADOC, JAVAH,

JAVAP, JAVA_KEYTOOL, JAVA_N2A, JAVA_POLICYTOOL,

JAVA_SERIALVER, RMIC, RMID and RMIREGISTRY.

bsd.java.mk 2.0 is mostly backward compatible with the previous

version, save for the notes above and changed internal variables.

Using the new features is strongly encouraged, since the old

bsd.java.mk 1.0 features will be deprecated and may be removed in

the future.

You will find more detailed info (as well as a quick tutorial) at:

http://www.esil.univ-mrs.fr/~hquiroz/freebsd/bsd.java.mk-2.0.html

20040316:

AUTHOR: gnome@FreeBSD.org

The print/freetype2 port has been updated to 2.1.7. This update

changes some of the internal FreeType API. Applications may need

to be patched to support this new API. If a source files includes

freetype/freetype.h, make sure ft2build.h is included before

freetype/freetype.h. The proper way to do this is:

#include <ft2build.h>

#include FT_FREETYPE_H

However, the following will work as well, but is deprecated:

#include <ft2build.h>

#include <freetype/freetype.h>

20040314:

AUTHOR: ade@FreeBSD.org

USE_LIBTOOL, USE_AUTOCONF, and USE_AUTOMAKE are now considered

deprecated, and will be removed on or around June 1st 2004.

All ports should now choose the specific version of the tool,

using USE_LIBTOOL_VER, USE_AUTOCONF_VER, and USE_AUTOMAKE_VER.

The old "system default" behavior can be written as follows:

Old New

USE_LIBTOOL=yes USE_LIBTOOL_VER=13

USE_AUTOCONF=yes USE_AUTOCONF_VER=213

USE_AUTOMAKE=yes USE_AUTOMAKE_VER=14

20040304:

AUTHOR: eik@FreeBSD.org

New variable MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE_EXTENDED. It has the

ten official sourceforge.net download mirrors, whereas

MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE only has five. To check if your

port is mirrored there, go to

<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/${MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR}/>

click on ${DISTFILES} and you'll see five or ten mirrors,

corresponding to the variables above.

20040226:

AUTHOR: knu@FreeBSD.org

The default version of Ruby is now 1.8 on all platforms

including the i386.

Users on the i386 platform need to follow the instructions

described in the UPDATING file to cope with this upgrade.

Next time ruby is major upgraded, you won't need to do this

kind of messy work because some subtle changes have been made

to the ruby port infrastructure to make it easier to handle

multiple versions of ruby.

20040217:

AUTHOR: gnome@FreeBSD.org

Mozilla will now default to using GTK2, and will only compile

against Gtk+-1.2 if explicitly requested. This is in exact

opposite to the old behaviour.

The valid values of WITH_MOZILLA are now:

mozilla (www/mozilla, GTK2)

mozilla-devel (www/mozilla-devel, GTK2)

mozilla-gtk1 (www/mozilla-gtk1, GTK1)

mozilla-devel-gtk1 (www/mozilla-devel-gtk1, GTK1)

As before, WITH_MOZILLA can be set in /etc/make.conf, but doing

so is not advised unless you desire the development versions.

GTK2 browsers will automatically compile against GTK2 mozilla,

and GTK1 browsers (galeon1, galeon1, and galeon1) will

automatically compile against GTK1.

Again, the only people who will need to take action are those

who desire development versions (which are inactive at this time

anyway). Those who want GTK1 mozilla-devel must set

WITH_MOZILLA=mozilla-devel-gtk1 or they will be pleasantly

surprised with their very own GTK2 installation on the next

update.

WITH_MOZILLA=mozilla-gtk2 and WITH_MOZILLA=mozilla-devel-gtk2

are still honoured for the time being, but their use is

now deprecated. Any new ports are not required to consider

their values, and so eventually WITH_MOZILLA _will_ have to

be changed.

Hopefully galeon2 can catch up to peoples' expectations from

galeon1 soon, and we can remove the GTK1 ports altogether.

20040204:

AUTHOR: portmgr@FreeBSD.org

The bsd.php.mk file has been moved out of the lang/php4 port

into the Mk directory. This will make it much easier to include

PHP support in PHP-dependent ports. Instead of including

bsd.php.mk directly, a port can simply set USE_PHP=yes, and the

ports system with Do the Right Thing.

All trailing whitespace has been removed from bsd.port.mk.

Enhance the new OPTIONS code by only including saved options if

the port defines OPTIONS, attempt to use LATEST_LINK as the

unique name for a port (fall back to ${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${PORTNAME}

otherwise), bring the ===> messages in line with the existing

ones by using PKGNAME instead of PORTNAME, use PKGNAME in the

dialog, use ECHO_CMD instead of ECHO_MSG to write the

OPTIONSFILE, display a message during compilation indicating

that user-specified options have been found, and make the output

of the showconfig target a little more user-friendly.

A new USE_ICONV macro has been added that takes the place of an

explicit LIB_DEPENDS on converters/libiconv. This will help

with future shared lib version bumps.

A new USE_GETTEXT macro has been added that takes the place of

an explicit LIB_DEPENDS on devel/gettext. This will help with

future shared lib version bumps.

Module::Build is a system for building, testing, and installing

Perl modules. It will eventually replace the obsoleted

ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Many new Perl modules have already

switched to using Build.PL instead of Makefile.PL. To

facilitate building those modules, a new PERL_MODBUILD macro has

been added. Use that in place of PERL_CONFIGURE when porting

Perl modules that make use of the Module::Build framework.

Certain ports want to check for the availability of SDL

libraries before including them. This change adds a new

WANT_SDL macro similar to WANT_GNOME. By setting this, the

porter indicates that her port can optional use SDL if present

on the system. WANT_SDL should be defined _before_

bsd.port.pre.mk is included. After including bsd.port.pre.mk,

the list of available SDL components will be returned in the

HAVE_SDL macro. For details on how to process this component

list, refer to bsd.sdl.mk.

The OpenBSD and NetBSD projects diverged from the FreeBSD ports

tree years ago, and it no longer make sense to include obsolete

references to incorrect paths in the FreeBSD ports system. This

change removes the NetBSD and OpenBSD PORTSDIR compatibility

bits from bsd.port.mk.

The comment for PKGDIR read, ``A direction containing any

package creating file.'' The word ``direction'' should be

``directory.'' This has been fixed.

A new DIRNAME macro has been added that points to

/usr/bin/dirname. All direct use of dirname in ports can be

switched to this macro.

Direct use of commands dirname, id, and rm have been corrected

to use their macro equivalents instead. Some useless ${HEAD}

-n 1 statements have been removed. A strange comment in the

do-install target and an out of place ``fi'' have been fixed as

well.

On 5-CURRENT after the 5.2-RELEASE split, the default Perl

version has been updated from 5.6.1 to 5.8.2. As well, some

Perl definitions in bsd.port.mk have been moved to their correct

locations which corrects the PERL_LEVEL definition.

The following optimizations have been added to the ports system

to speed up recursive operations such as make describe, make

index, make ignorelist, etc. bsd.gnome.mk is now only included

if a port defines USE_GNOME, WANT_GNOME, and/or USE_GTK. More

variables are cached and passed down through bsd.port.subdir.mk.

Perl is no longer invoked when a simple ``echo'' will do. More

subshell variable assignments have been hidden behind

conditionals so that the commands are not spawned everytime.

Finally, dependency lists are only constructed if ports actually

declare dependencies. These optimizations give make index

approximately a 43% speedup.

If CPUFLAGS is not defined (this _CPUCFLAGS is empty), trying

to remove _CPUCFLAGS from CFLAGS will result in an error. This

change fixes that.

On recent versions of 5.X, /etc/rc.subr exists, and there is no

reason to install another copy in ${LOCALBASE}/etc. The reason

this was ever done was to workaround some build issues on bento.

However, testing OSVERSION seems to work in spite of those build

issues.

The ports system now supports MySQL 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0.

Also, the ability to scale to newer versions was also but in

place.

An .endif comment indicated that the .if block checked

WANT_MYSQL when, in fact, it was checking WANT_MYSQL_VER. This

has been corrected.

The PTHREAD{CFLAGS,LIBS} macros have been made overridable on

all versions of FreeBSD to allow for alternate threading

implementations (e.g. -lc_r, -lthr, -mt, etc.). The default

threading library has been changed to -lpthread from -lc_r on

-CURRENT.

The new SIZE support broke distfiles fetching on FreeBSD < 4.8.

On those versions of FreeBSD, the SIZE distfile attribute is now

ignored. Also, defining DISABLE_SIZE in, for example,

/etc/make.conf, will ignore the SIZE attribute on all versions

of FreeBSD. This is useful with alternate values for FETCH_CMD.

A new vulnerabilities database has been added to the ports

system in order to keep more accurate, up-to-date, track of

security vulnerabilities. The ports system now knows how to

query that database and dynamically prevents the installation

of vulnerable ports.

In order to allow for more rapid development of the package

tools, the ports system will prefer to use pkg_* tools found in

${LOCALBASE} over those in the base system. However, all PKG_*

macros are still overridable.

A new physical category, net-mgmt, has been created to house

network management ports.

The /var/db/port.mkversion file never really took off, and is

now very obsolete. Replace the code used to generate and check

this file with a simple OSVERSION check. The ports system now

requires FreeBSD 4.3 or higher.

The last round of bsd.*.mk changes broke ports that had

duplicate distinfo entries (e.g. linux_base). This is now

fixed. Along with this fix, only distfiles with a bad checksum

will be refetched, where as distfiles missing from distinfo will

not be refetched.

The PLIST_{DIRS,FILES} macros were passed to the final package

list unchanged by PLIST_SUB. This is not always desirable.

Now, those macros are passed through PLIST_SUB.

The previous OPTIONS code assumed users would be running port

build as root. If this was not the case, OPTIONS configuration

would fail. Now, the bits of the config and rmconfig targets

that require write access to system directories are run under

SU_CMD.

The makesum target will now add a SIZE attribute for each

distfile by default. This can be overridden by defining NO_SIZE

in a port's Makefile. Note: this could probably be expanded to

omit SIZE attributes for specific distfiles in the future.

20040129:

AUTHOR: trevor@FreeBSD.org

SIZE lines in distinfo files: if you set USE_SIZE when you do "make

makesum", the byte sizes of the distfiles will be listed in the

distinfo file. Then, if a distfile is replaced on its master site with

one of a different size than that listed, "make fetch" will fail with a

"size mismatch" error before downloading the file and the user will be

asked to fetch the file by hand. Also, a user will know the size of

the distfiles before fetching and decide to fetch later.

20040129:

AUTHOR: erwin@FreeBSD.org

Start of CHANGES file.

FORMAT:

This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major

breakages or added features in tracking ports. Not all things will be

listed here, and it only starts on January 29, 2004.

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