On 14 Dec 2005, at 12:59 PM, Jolan Luff wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:51:17PM +1100, Ian McWilliam wrote:
On 14 Dec 2005, at 10:42 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
It is time to ask ourselves how this state of affairs came to
be. Who
commited the stuff that broke so many packages?
And why do fixes for broken ports get ignored?
can you be more specific? like examples with links to mailing list
archives...
OK start with these two.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-ports&m=113314195505905&w=2
akpop3d - had some users screaming for help.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-ports&m=113222907802512&w=2
pear php4 - this one stops anyone , (and it's a real nice show
stopper! as it tries to recompile the entire php4 port from scratch
and winds up failing anyway) like myself from creating pear ports,
like when I was creating a pear Logging port to work with the openbsd
ports tree.
I'm sure there are others, and having an unbroken ports tree in spots
would be nice.
Ian McWilliam
