Re: Announce Broken Ports
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:00:07PM -0300, Leonardo Lazarte wrote: > > As seen in several messages to this and other lists, the PORTS > mecanism has been broken. > > I have read about some patches and possible solutions, but I > could not find an easy way to overcome the problem. > > Shouldn't it be announced clearly, on the FreeBSD site, that > there is a problem with PORTS, perhaps pointing to some > temporary solution, until the problem is solved? It is announced clearly on the FreeBSD website that old FreeBSD releases are unsupported. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ > I have used FreeBSD for a decade, and it is the first time > that I have to change the OS version due to problems broght > from the distributions. You've been fortunate, but if your claim is true (the FreeBSD project has existed for 10 years and 3 weeks, so you must have been one of the very first users), then you've presumably got the skills to cope. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Announce Broken Ports
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Leonardo > Lazarte > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 10:00 AM > To: freebsd-questions > Subject: Announce Broken Ports > > > > As seen in several messages to this and other lists, the PORTS > mecanism has been broken. I'm not sure what you mean. I am running 4-stable, and ports are building just fine. What's broken? > I have read about some patches and possible solutions, but I > could not find an easy way to overcome the problem. > > Shouldn't it be announced clearly, on the FreeBSD site, that > there is a problem with PORTS, perhaps pointing to some > temporary solution, until the problem is solved? I don't read every freebsd- list, but I haven't seen any mention of this, or witnessed any evidence of a problem. If you are having trouble with the ports collection, you could try removing and cvsupping a fresh tree. > I have used FreeBSD for a decade, and it is the first time > that I have to change the OS version due to problems broght > from the distributions. What version were/are you using? Why would you change the OS version because of a ports problem? I'm not clear, here. > Thanks to anyone which could look into this, Again, I can only speak from my own experience, and on my machines, running 4.7 - 4-stable, ports build just fine. The problem may lie elsewhere. Joshua ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Announce Broken Ports
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:00:07PM -0300 or thereabouts, Leonardo Lazarte wrote:
>
> As seen in several messages to this and other lists, the PORTS
> mecanism has been broken.
It only seems so because of the dependency on pkg_info -O.
>
> I have read about some patches and possible solutions, but I
> could not find an easy way to overcome the problem.
CVSup /usr/src, cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_info, make install clean.
>
> Shouldn't it be announced clearly, on the FreeBSD site, that
> there is a problem with PORTS, perhaps pointing to some
> temporary solution, until the problem is solved?
NO, IMO that would be quite inappropriate. The fix is simple.
(It *would* be nice if someone could change bsd.port.mk to only
use pkg_info -O if ${OSRELDATE} >= 48, however :-)
>
> I have used FreeBSD for a decade, and it is the first time
> that I have to change the OS version due to problems broght
> from the distributions.
A decade? Nope.
Now -- July 2003
1.0 -- November 1993
So no, there HASN'T been a decade of FreeBSD. (I'm sure there'll be
a party in November :-)
-- Josh
>
> Leonardo
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Announce Broken Ports
As seen in several messages to this and other lists, the PORTS mecanism has been broken. I have read about some patches and possible solutions, but I could not find an easy way to overcome the problem. Shouldn't it be announced clearly, on the FreeBSD site, that there is a problem with PORTS, perhaps pointing to some temporary solution, until the problem is solved? I have used FreeBSD for a decade, and it is the first time that I have to change the OS version due to problems broght from the distributions. Thanks to anyone which could look into this, Leonardo -- Leonardo Lazarte - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vox. +55(61)349 4923 Dep. de Matematica - Univ. de BrasiliaFax. +55(61)273 2737 ou 274 3910 Nucleo de Estudos da Sociedade da Informacao http://www.socinfo.unb.br ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
