ports/176043: ports: mail/nmh -- missing dependencies

Ronald F.Guilmette rfg at tristatelogic.com
Tue Feb 12 02:50:01 UTC 2013


>Number:         176043
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       ports: mail/nmh -- missing dependencies
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 12 02:50:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ronald F. Guilmette
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
entr0py
>Environment:

System: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

>Description:

It is apparently possible to build and install the mail/nmh port without
also installing various of the helper programs referred to within the
/usr/local/etc/nmh/mhn.defaults file that gets installed, by default
as part of the nmh install.

Given that these additional programs are not installed, I believe that
operation of certain nmh functionality will fail, utterly, when invoked,
due to the possible/probable absence of these programs.

The specific programs involved are:

giftoppm
djpeg
pbmtoxwd
pgmtopbm
ppmtopgm
xwud

The above are all referenced within various of the mhshow-show-image/* lines
within the default installed /usr/local/etc/nmh/mhn.defaults file.

>How-To-Repeat:

portinstall mail/nmh
head /usr/local/etc/nmh/mhn.defaults

>Fix:

Add dependencies, as necessary in order to insure that whenever nmh is
installed from the ports collection, each and all of the above listed
"helper" programs will also be installed.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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