[Box Backup-dev] FreeBSD Port PR Submitted

[Ben Summers]

On 20 Mar 2006, at 22:35, James O'Gorman wrote:

> For those interested, you can track the progress of the PR here:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/94752
>
> I'm also pleased that I found quite a clean way of patching for the  
> perl fixes. There are now only two patch files in the port (as  
> opposed to 29!); one to patch configure.ac and one for  
> BoxPortsAndFiles.h (to make the config dir PREFIX-clean). All other  
> perl path updates are done using sed in the Makefile itself (see  
> the post-patch: target in the diff).

Thanks for producing the port. It sounds like it was a little non- 
trivial!

>
> At some point I was thinking about writing a shell or perl script  
> as an interactive wrapper around bbackupd-config, bbstoreaccounts,  
> raidfile-config, etc. (Not necessarily all in one script). I will  
> probably add this to the port when I get around to writing it, but  
> depending on its usefulness, would it be something worth having as  
> part of the official release?

What extra would it provide? I'm all for including useful things in  
the distribution.

Ben