As part of work on a new installer, I would like to update the base
system dialog and libdialog to the newer one provided by Thomas Dickey
(http://invisible-island.net/dialog/, ports as devel/cdialog). This is a
much nicer, fuller featured version of dialog that simplifies the
creation of new dialog-using tools (a longstanding impediment to a new
versions of sade, sysinstall, etc.), and is under a marginally better
license (LGPL2 instead of GPL2).
Patches to effect the import can be found at:
- http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/libdialog-update.diff
What the patches do:
- Replaces dialog(1) with a new version. All command-line options of the
old dialog except --fstree are accepted by the new dialog, and the ports
options framework continues to work without modification.
- Renames libdialog to libodialog (old dialog). The new dialog library
has a much more pleasant API than the old one -- which directly implies
that it has a substantially different API. Until sysinstall, sade, and
tzsetup are replaced or rewritten, we need to keep the old library around.
- Modifies sysinstall, sade, and tzsetup to link to libodialog instead
of libdialog.
- Deletes all man pages and examples associated with libodialog. This is
deprecated code.
- Installs new dialog library as libdialog
- Bumps __FreeBSD_version to 900030
Layout of new files:
- /usr/src/contrib/dialog -- contents of 20100428 release of dialog (the
same as the current ports version)
- /usr/src/gnu/lib/dialog -- new dialog library
- /usr/src/gnu/lib/libodialog -- old dialog library
- /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/dialog -- new dialog binary
I would appreciate any comments or adverse test results. If I hear
nothing, I plan to commit this on Wednesday, January 12, one week from
today.
-Nathan
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