On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:09:51 +0100 Marc Espie <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've looked a bit more at ports that *require* sudo make clean to > clean-up. > > they're obviously broken, as a port has no business changing things > in its WRKDIST during the fake stage. > > I've cleaned up most of them. > > Python seems to be a very frequent offender. Looks like the python > guys don't really understand the concept of separate users, and using > root only when needed. Kind of sad actually. > > python.port.mk gained a BADEGGS settings to deal with all the > breakage in eggs (that's a really dirty hack, use your > peril-sensitive glasses). > > There are still other python issues. I guess python is fond of fucking > up things during fake. > > Anyways, unless I fix them, the current list is: > devel/p5-POE > editors/openoffice3 > > and all the following are python ports: > > audio/exaile > audio/sonata > devel/py-py > multimedia/oggconvert > security/prelude/prewikka > www/zope/2.10 > www/zope/2.9 > > fixes welcome... > I started looking into p5-POE v1.280 and the first order of business, namely `make fetch` shows many failed attempts to download from CPAN. The distfile is probably not available due to the newest version v1.287 being released (2010 Feb 18). I *think* it is bad timing to attempt fixing and upgrading? maintainer cc'd.
