Re: git: bb63e82e8c10 - main - bsddialog(1): document the replacement of dialog(1)

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 12:03:32PM +0200, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:25:13 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > 
> > The branch main has been updated by bapt:
> > 
> > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=bb63e82e8c109156b31e806fac8ecefbd259a0ed
> > 
> > commit bb63e82e8c109156b31e806fac8ecefbd259a0ed
> > Author:     Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2023-10-10 07:24:25 +0000
> > Commit:     Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2023-10-10 07:24:25 +0000
> > 
> >     bsddialog(1): document the replacement of dialog(1)
> > ---
> >  RELNOTES |  3 +++
> >  UPDATING | 10 ++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
> > index c5686a4f30fb..880cec5d3fe1 100644
> > --- a/RELNOTES
> > +++ b/RELNOTES
> > @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ newline.  Entries should be separated by a newline.
> Herbert
> >  
> >  Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
> >  
> > +ff01d71e48d4:
> > +	dialog(1) has been replace by bsddialog(1)
> > +
> >  41582f28ddf7:
> >  	FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms.
> >  	However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit
> > diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
> > index a1bcecadd357..0064e53c7a53 100644
> > --- a/UPDATING
> > +++ b/UPDATING
> > @@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW:
> >  	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
> >  	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
> >  
> > +20231010:
> > +	dialog(1) has been replaced in base by bsddialog(1), while most of the
> > +	time replacing a dialog(1) call by a bsddialog(1) call works out of the
> > +	box, bsddialog(1) is not considered as a drop-in replacement dialog(1).
> > +
> > +	If you do depend on dialog(1) functionnality, please install cdialog
> > +	from ports:
> > +
> > +	pkg install cdialog
> > +
> >  20230927:
> >  	The EARLY_AP_STARTUP kernel option is mandatory on x86.  The option
> >  	has been added to DEFAULTS, so it should automatically be included in
> 
> This breaks ports-mgmt/dialog4ports.
> 
> Installing devel/cdialog (via pkg) and patching
> work/dialog4ports-0.1.6/Makefile obviously resolves this issue:
> 
> -LDADD+=        -ldialog
> +LDADD+=        -L/usr/local/lib -lcdialog
> 
> Or is the port obsolete/to be replaced?
> 
> --
> 

Oups thank you! yes this is replaced by ports-mgmt/portconfig.

Best regards,
Bapt