Possibly unbuildable ports reminder
Dear porters, This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of unbuildable ports at http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ . A list by MAINTAINER is http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/errorlogs/ so you can easily check the status of ports that you maintain. In addition, the list of ports with no MAINTAINER with build problems is http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/errorlogs/po...@freebsd.org.html Since no one is responsible for these ports, the problem won't get fixed unless someone on this list takes the initiative. Thanks for your help! Bill annoying port email Fenner ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: list of ports broken by USB switchover?
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:12:57AM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:08:13AM +0100, Lars Engels wrote: multimedia/pwcbsd is broken. If I can find the new FreeBSD version I will mark it broken for USB2. 800064 Thanks. I committed it with BROKEN set for 800063. Lars pgp7z0oCqj8Rd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xine: div/xvid issues
On Thursday 26 February 2009 07:23:58 Cezary Morga wrote: Hi there. I've got this strange problem. Out of a sudden xine can't play any DivX/XviD movies. It throws this on me: video_decoder: no plugin available to handle 'DivX 5' All I've done lately (that is today) was a libxine update from 1.1.15 to 1.1.16.2. libxine uses ffmpeg for DivX* playback and so does mplayer, but mplayer have no problems with divx. I have same problem after upgrade to libxine-1.1.16.2 video_decoder: no plugin available to handle 'XviD' For test was builded on the pure system only xorg and xine. The result of the same, but noted that the multimedia/xvid is not installed. Golyashov Sergey ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports on Macbook
2009/2/27 Sergio de Almeida Lenzi le...@k1.com.br: Em Sex, 2009-02-27 às 14:45 +0300, z...@zaa.pp.ru escreveu: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 03:04:09PM +0530, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: Hi I hear that Mac OS X and later ones are based on FreeBSD. My wife is planning to get a Macbook , which I don't quite approve. Mainly because we need to pay for any upgrade or new add ons. Hello... I use a free version of the Leopard based on darwin (freebsd6) named hackintosh it is the google, it is free, and just works... You can even buy a standard notebook, and install. I will transform the notebook in an apple leopard 10. It is a DVD of 4Gb.. Sergio Not only is that not what the OP is asking for, you're making us look like criminals. Save your warez talk for other places please. Chris ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports on Macbook
-- From: Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:31 AM To: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi le...@k1.com.br Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org; FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports on Macbook 2009/2/27 Sergio de Almeida Lenzi le...@k1.com.br: Em Sex, 2009-02-27 às 14:45 +0300, z...@zaa.pp.ru escreveu: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 03:04:09PM +0530, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: Hi I hear that Mac OS X and later ones are based on FreeBSD. My wife is planning to get a Macbook , which I don't quite approve. Mainly because we need to pay for any upgrade or new add ons. for simple clarification. OSX is built on top of Darwin which is BASED on FreeBSD, but is not BSD. its BSD code built on top of the Mach kernel. Ports are just the source code for the programs yer looking for anyway so there's nothing stopping you from doing stuff like installing OpenOffice or Gimp under OSX. I've seen people replace the Quartz interface with Gnome before. overall Im with you in abstaining from anything with the name apple attached to it since its all overpriced underpowered crap. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Testers for lang/ruby18 with Profile-Guided Optimization
Hi,
I did some work on the lang/ruby18 to enable Profile-Guided
Optimization (PGO) build support.
What I did? (Steps 1-4 handled by pgo port target).
--- RECIPE
1) Compile everything with CFLAGS/LDFLAGS containing
'-fprofile-generate';
2) Run lots of test cases to generate profiling information
(make check);
3) Remove all binaries leaving only the profiling information behind;
4) Replace all instances of '-fprofile-generate' with
'-fprofile-use';
5) Re-compile everything using the profiling information.
---
If I did it correctly, you should not notice any differences
on port usage aside from PGO option and a huge build compilation
time. Please, verify if you can that I did all steps of the RECIPE
correctly.
I am not a ruby expert so I would like input on this one:
1) Does it perform better than ruby18 compiled without PGO?
Hard number benchmarks welcome. Check
http://github.com/acangiano/ruby-benchmark-suite/tree/master
2) Also, could others run specification conformance
verification checks on the resulting ruby interpreter?
So that we have multiple cross verification. Perhaps,
with rubyspec?
I hope you find this useful and that it performs as expected.
I want to go after lang/ruby19. Perhaps, even python and perl5.
The modified port file can be found at
http://people.freebsd.org/~lioux/ruby18-pgo-2009022800.tbz
but the patch is so small that I have it as an attachment.
Regards,
--
Mario S F Ferreira - DF - Brazil - I guess this is a signature.
feature, n: a documented bug | bug, n: an undocumented feature
--- Makefile.orig 2009-02-12 15:54:27.0 -0200
+++ Makefile2009-02-28 09:04:05.0 -0300
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
ONIGURUMA Build with oniguruma regular expressions lib off \
GCPATCH Build with GC performance statistics collector off \
IPV6 Enable IPv6 support on \
+ PGO Enable Profile-Guided Optimization off \
RDOC Build and install Rdoc indexes off \
DEBUG Compile-in debug info off
@@ -57,6 +58,10 @@
CFLAGS+= ${PTHREAD_CFLAGS} # Keep this, else ruby will fail to load
LDFLAGS+= ${PTHREAD_LIBS} # libraries dependent op libpthread.
+.if defined(WITH_PGO)
+PKGNAMESUFFIX:=${PKGNAMESUFFIX}+pgo
+.endif
+
.if defined(WITH_PTHREADS)
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-pthread
PKGNAMESUFFIX:=${PKGNAMESUFFIX}+pthreads
@@ -98,8 +103,14 @@
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-ipv6
.endif
+.if defined(WITH_PGO)
+CONFIGURE_ENV= CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fprofile-generate \
+ LDFLAGS=-fprofile-generate \
+ LIBS=${LDFLAGS}
+.else
CONFIGURE_ENV= CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} \
LIBS=${LDFLAGS}
+.endif
.if ${RUBY_VER} == ${RUBY_DEFAULT_VER}
MLINKS=${RUBY_NAME}.1 ruby.1
@@ -170,6 +181,13 @@
cd ${WRKSRC}/ ${PATCH} -p0
${PATCHDIR}/extrapatch-oniguruma-reggnu.c
.endif
+.if defined(WITH_PGO)
+.if target(pre-build)
+.error Makefile error since pre-build target has already been defined
+.endif
+pre-build: pgo
+.endif
+
post-build:
#
# Hack to allow modules to be installed into separate PREFIX and/or under user
@@ -321,4 +339,47 @@
(cd ${WRKSRC}/rubyspec git clone git://github.com/rubyspec/mspec.git)
(cd ${WRKSRC}/rubyspec/rubyspec env
PATH=${WRKSRC}/rubyspec/mspec/bin:${PATH} mspec -t
${PREFIX}/bin/ruby${RUBY_SUFFIX})
+.if defined(WITH_PGO)
+pgo: pgo-pre-build pgo-build pgo-run pgo-post-run pgo-clean
+
+pgo-pre-build:
+ @${FIND} ${BUILD_WRKSRC} -type f -name Makefile -exec \
+ ${REINPLACE_CMD} -E \
+ -e
's,^(((C|LD)FLAGS|LDSHARED|ldflags)[[:space:]]*=.*)-fprofile-generate,\1,' \
+ -e 's,^(CFLAGS[[:space:]]*=.*)-fprofile-use,\1,' \
+ -e
's,^(((C|LD)FLAGS|LDSHARED|ldflags)[[:space:]]*=.*)$$,\1 -fprofile-generate,' \
+ {} \;
+
+# XXX
+# Can I use do-build directly instead of copying its contents?
+# I mean, if I do
+#
+# pgo-build: do-build
+#
+# Will do-build still be called when bsd.port.mk gets to the build target?
+# Or, will it have already been executed by the pgo-build target?
+#
+pgo-build:
+ @(cd ${BUILD_WRKSRC}; ${SETENV} ${MAKE_ENV} ${MAKE} ${MAKE_FLAGS}
${MAKEFILE} ${MAKE_ARGS} ${ALL_TARGET})
+
+pgo-run: test
+# Check everything to generate profiling information.
+# We will ignore any errors if test target works
+ @-(cd ${BUILD_WRKSRC}; ${MAKE} check)
+
+pgo-post-run:
+ @${FIND} ${BUILD_WRKSRC} -type f -name Makefile -exec \
+ ${REINPLACE_CMD} -E \
+ -e
's,^(((C|LD)FLAGS|LDSHARED|ldflags)[[:space:]]*=.*)-fprofile-generate,\1,' \
+ -e 's,^(CFLAGS[[:space:]]*=.*)-fprofile-use,\1,' \
+
Re: Possibly unbuildable ports reminder
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:00:07AM +, Bill Fenner wrote: Dear porters, This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of unbuildable ports at http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ . A list by MAINTAINER is http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/errorlogs/ so you can easily check the status of ports that you maintain. In addition, the list of ports with no MAINTAINER with build problems is http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/errorlogs/po...@freebsd.org.html I would say that this run: i386-6-exp-latest Fri Feb 27 00:30:39 2009gtkdatabox-0.9.0.0.log 1 56k x11-toolkits/gtkdatabox ld tried to do something bad. In this case it tried to build the old version of gtkdatabox (0.9.0.0) with the new version of gtk (2.14.7). The ports tree was never in this state. Just FYI, Alexey. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Summary of recent Maintainer Roundup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Earlier in February, I put out a plea to find maintainers for unloved, unmaintaintained and uncared for ports. I threw down the gauntlet and people responded. To you, a tip of my hat, and a resounding thank you for stepping up! Since that time, we passed of over 100 ports to 16 willing maintainers. For fear of being procmail'd /dev/null, I will sporadically send out similar calls for maintainers. Let us keep the momentum going folks, keep up the good work, and please watch for my next announcement! Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabtho...@freebsd.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkmpgeIACgkQ5Gm/jNBp8qAU1ACfS9r8XfyC3F06UbgG7PL5phQp waMAoIDxh/6L9ZoHQ3emdmLj28CWYoj4 =2m1j -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports on Macbook
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Mario Theodoridis ma...@schmut.com wrote: On Friday 27 February 2009 01:34:09 Nataraj S Narayan wrote: Hi I hear that Mac OS X and later ones are based on FreeBSD. My wife is planning to get a Macbook , which I don't quite approve. Mainly because we need to pay for any upgrade or new add ons. But i see there is the 'ports' for Mac as in the case of FreeBSD. Is it the same thing? Can we use FreeBSD ports on Macbook? That we I am spared of paying profusely? There are port systems, but i doubt FreeBSD ports will build on OS X check out http://www.finkproject.org/ and http://darwinports.com/ Also the mac doesn't run X natively and the implementation used to be substandard a couple of years ago. (Difficult clipboard support, apps not on task bar, multi monitor hand ups...). I assume this has improved, since it's been a couple of years since i played with macs. fink and darwinports have all but died off now. I highly suggest using macports because (apart from the tcl based wrapper script), it's based off of FreeBSD's port system, with some tweaks. They also seem to keep things more up to date than fink did. HTH, -Garrett ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
vis5d+ build on sparc64-6
I happened to see http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/sparc64-6-full/vis5d+-1.2.1_10.log Why is the -fno-range-check not being used? It is clearly set in Makefile as part of FFLAGS. Is this a sparc64-6 issue only? Thanks, Stephen ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: trying out xfce 4.6 RC1?
Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi, If someone wants to try out xfce 4.6 RC1 here are my patches: http://people.freebsd.org/~oliver/xfce/xfce-4.5.99.1.diff This one needs to be applied below /usr/ports. With xfce 4.6 there are also 3 new ports. You will find them here: http://people.freebsd.org/~oliver/xfce/xfce-4.5.99.1.tar.gz Please extract this tarball also below /usr/ports. Then deinstall your xfce 4.4 ports, cd into /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 and make install. Any comments welcome.. Hi, i also was using your patchset actively :) thanks for the port so far. I noticed some things on the way: The mixer application unfortunatly uses gstreamer now, and i think it is rubbish :P. Could the old mixer be preserved somehow? It was clean and very simple. I also remember to remember that the new one doesnt work that well. # EDIT: you should probably ignore this This is probably an issue of xfce itself, but maybe worth mentioning; The dragdrop between xfdesktop and thunar is kinda quirky. I noticed that files get copied instead of renamed when I drag them elsewhere in the same filesystem (again between xfdesktop and thunar). Also highlighting multiple files and then using dragdrop only caused the single actually dragged file to be moved (... copied). # end igrone BTW: Is the HAL automounting working in xfce? i never really tried to make it work. Is it set up analog to gnome (its horror there)? Thanks for your work, I really appreciate it. regards ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Dead projects in ports tree
Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be helpful... multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no releases in the past 3 years I'll continue posting more items to this thread as I find them... Thanks, -Garrett ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ports + pkg_install - confusion over what's installed
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:13:18PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi guys, I just tried to pull in audio/py-flac to see what the build errors are, but unfortunately it doesn't let me get too far in the build. I'm greeted by this error: === Installing for flac-1.2.1 === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if audio/flac already installed === flac-1.2.1 is already installed You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. If you really wish to overwrite the old port of audio/flac without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER in your environment or the make install command line. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/audio/flac. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/audio/py-flac. I'm used to this occurring with stuff that I've already installed on my machine, and subsequently am attempting to reinstall, but I'm not used to seeing this when Does anyone else see this and can they possibly provide a cluebat on where to look to fix this issue (I have an idea from pkg_install's end, but not the port Makefile's end...)? This was a package marked IGNORE. Thanks, -Garrett FLAC shlib version is 8 now, py-flac LIB_DEPENDS line should be updated accordingly (otherwise it will try to install FLAC again to get libFLAC.so.7 and fail as it's already installed). HTH, Yuri ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dead projects in ports tree
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Garrett Cooper yanef...@gmail.com wrote: Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be helpful... multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no releases in the past 3 years I'll continue posting more items to this thread as I find them... Thanks, -Garrett xmms looks completely dead now. Can someone confirm or deny this fact? -Garrett ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ports + pkg_install - confusion over what's installed
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Yuri Pankov yuri.pan...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:13:18PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi guys, I just tried to pull in audio/py-flac to see what the build errors are, but unfortunately it doesn't let me get too far in the build. I'm greeted by this error: === Installing for flac-1.2.1 === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if audio/flac already installed === flac-1.2.1 is already installed You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. If you really wish to overwrite the old port of audio/flac without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER in your environment or the make install command line. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/audio/flac. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/audio/py-flac. I'm used to this occurring with stuff that I've already installed on my machine, and subsequently am attempting to reinstall, but I'm not used to seeing this when Does anyone else see this and can they possibly provide a cluebat on where to look to fix this issue (I have an idea from pkg_install's end, but not the port Makefile's end...)? This was a package marked IGNORE. Thanks, -Garrett FLAC shlib version is 8 now, py-flac LIB_DEPENDS line should be updated accordingly (otherwise it will try to install FLAC again to get libFLAC.so.7 and fail as it's already installed). HTH, Yuri Ok. I'll fudge around with that then. Thanks! -Garrett ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
[SOLVED] Re: ports + pkg_install - confusion over what's installed
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Garrett Cooper yanef...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Yuri Pankov yuri.pan...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:13:18PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi guys, I just tried to pull in audio/py-flac to see what the build errors are, but unfortunately it doesn't let me get too far in the build. I'm greeted by this error: === Installing for flac-1.2.1 === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if audio/flac already installed === flac-1.2.1 is already installed You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. If you really wish to overwrite the old port of audio/flac without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER in your environment or the make install command line. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/audio/flac. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/audio/py-flac. I'm used to this occurring with stuff that I've already installed on my machine, and subsequently am attempting to reinstall, but I'm not used to seeing this when Does anyone else see this and can they possibly provide a cluebat on where to look to fix this issue (I have an idea from pkg_install's end, but not the port Makefile's end...)? This was a package marked IGNORE. Thanks, -Garrett FLAC shlib version is 8 now, py-flac LIB_DEPENDS line should be updated accordingly (otherwise it will try to install FLAC again to get libFLAC.so.7 and fail as it's already installed). HTH, Yuri Ok. I'll fudge around with that then. Thanks! -Garrett Ok, now I see the compile errors. It's actually version 10 to be exact (not 8 -- that's FLAC++). Thanks, -Garrett ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD Port: openssh-portable-5.0.p1,1
Hi there, the package openssh-portable-5.0.p1,1 is outdated and it would be great to see an update. Thanks in advance, Gerrit Helm ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dead projects in ports tree
Garrett Cooper writes: Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be helpful... xmms looks completely dead now. Can someone confirm or deny this fact? huff@ dir /var/dv/pkg | grep xmms-1 drwxr-xr-x2 root wheel 512 Feb 27 15:47 xmms-1.2.11_6 huff@ ps -ax | grep xmms 99029 ?? S102:16.39 /usr/local/bin/xmms It's currently playing Fleetwood Mac's The chain Robert Huff ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dead projects in ports tree
Robert Huff wrote: Garrett Cooper writes: Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be helpful... xmms looks completely dead now. Can someone confirm or deny this fact? huff@ dir /var/dv/pkg | grep xmms-1 drwxr-xr-x2 root wheel 512 Feb 27 15:47 xmms-1.2.11_6 huff@ ps -ax | grep xmms 99029 ?? S102:16.39 /usr/local/bin/xmms It's currently playing Fleetwood Mac's The chain Robert Huff I too still use xmms and can confirm it works still. Naram Qashat ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dead projects in ports tree
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:25:09 -0500 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Garrett Cooper writes: Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be helpful... xmms looks completely dead now. Can someone confirm or deny this fact? huff@ dir /var/dv/pkg | grep xmms-1 drwxr-xr-x2 root wheel 512 Feb 27 15:47 xmms-1.2.11_6 huff@ ps -ax | grep xmms 99029 ?? S102:16.39 /usr/local/bin/xmms It's currently playing Fleetwood Mac's The chain Quite. I find xmms very useful as a secondary mp2/flac player, particularly when I have a long playlist is amarok, and I don't want to lose my place in an audio-book, or opera. I don't see the point in removing stable software just because it hasn't needed fixing recently. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dead projects in ports tree
per...@pluto.rain.com writes: multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no releases in the past 3 years This strikes me as slim evidence on which to seek a death sentence :) While I can't testify to the usefulness of this particular port, the fact that something has not changed in a long time could just as well mean that it does its job well -- and thus does not need to be updated -- as that it is no longer useful. Are there criteria - or even guidelines - for when a port should be reaped? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dead projects in ports tree
On Saturday 28 February 2009 17:33:17 Robert Huff wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com writes: multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no releases in the past 3 years This strikes me as slim evidence on which to seek a death sentence :) While I can't testify to the usefulness of this particular port, the fact that something has not changed in a long time could just as well mean that it does its job well -- and thus does not need to be updated -- as that it is no longer useful. Are there criteria - or even guidelines - for when a port should be reaped? Sure, if the port has been broken for more than 6 months, it's abandoned (website is gone and port isn't fetchable from outside mirrors) or it's been replaced. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dead projects in ports tree
On Saturday 28 February 2009 15:05:56 Garrett Cooper wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Garrett Cooper yanef...@gmail.com wrote: Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be helpful... multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no releases in the past 3 years I'll continue posting more items to this thread as I find them... Thanks, -Garrett xmms looks completely dead now. Can someone confirm or deny this fact? That port is maintained by me. There haven't been any updates for awhile, but the port is stable. Two reasons to leave it alone. 1: It is stable and works on all versions and 2: The port has several ports that depend on it. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
