ports/139599: sysutils/p5-BSD-Sysctl can not handle QUAD integer.

[David Landgren]

The following reply was made to PR ports/139599; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Landgren <david at landgren.net>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/139599: sysutils/p5-BSD-Sysctl can not handle QUAD integer.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:30:56 +0200

 Edwin Groothuis wrote:
 > Maintainer of sysutils/p5-BSD-Sysctl,
 > 
 > Please note that PR ports/139599 has just been submitted.
 > 
 > If it contains a patch for an upgrade, an enhancement or a bug fix
 > you agree on, reply to this email stating that you approve the patch
 > and a committer will take care of it.
 > 
 > The full text of the PR can be found at:
 >     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/139599
 
 Dear Edwin,
 
 I do not approve of this patch.
 
 Executive summary: the port should be updated to 0.10, which renders 
 this patch superfluous.
 
 The desired functionality is present in the 0.10 release available on 
 CPAN (of which I am the author), and it also handles unsigned quads, 
 something this patch doesn't do.
 
 Furthermore, a patch was sent to me to handle large sysctl return values 
 (e.g. some of the oids that return large XML documents), which was why 
 0.09 was released.
 
 Subsequent testing by me revealed that said patch caused core dumps on 
 6.x. This  was corrected in 0.10.
 
 Regards,
 David Landgren