Re: Are there any maintainer for mplayer?

2007-12-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 04:26:45AM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Mark Linimon wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 03:54:28AM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: I looked in the Makefile for mplayer but couldn't find any MAINTAINER. $ cd multimedia/mplayer $ make maintainer [EMAIL

[RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the future (estimates if and when needed vary from ASAP to

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I promised not to venture my opinion on things but this one needs it Too much talk from people not willing to do the heavy lifting. There have been a number of serious attempts and in depth research into various ports system issues (I still need

Re: duration of the ports freeze

2007-12-02 Thread David Southwell
On Saturday 01 December 2007 15:05:39 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: It's nothing like global warming.  Global warming is an ill understood problem, with various estimates ranging from basically not existing to it's too late and we are all doomed anyway, and the potential consequences of not

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Dan Langille
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 3. What is the single best aspect of the current system? Good people doing the heavy lifting 4. What is the single worst aspect of the current system? Too much talk from people not willing to do the heavy lifting. 8. How long have you used

Re: duration of the ports freeze

2007-12-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am not comparing a ports freeze to Global warming -- just likening the responses to a problem. And like global warming it is something everyone thinks they know something about but at the end of day it turns out that as far I can tell no one

Re: duration of the ports freeze

2007-12-02 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am not comparing a ports freeze to Global warming -- just likening the responses to a problem. And like global warming it is something everyone thinks they know something about but at the end of day it turns out that

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread David Southwell
On Sunday 02 December 2007 06:41:12 Dan Langille wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 3. What is the single best aspect of the current system? Good people doing the heavy lifting 4. What is the single worst aspect of the current system? Too much talk from people not

Re: duration of the ports freeze

2007-12-02 Thread David Southwell
On Sunday 02 December 2007 08:27:28 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I am not comparing a ports freeze to Global warming -- just likening the responses to a problem. And like global warming it is something everyone thinks they know something about but at the end of day it turns out that as far I

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Dec 2, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Hi, As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the future (estimates if and when needed vary

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:37:22 -0600, David Southwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 December 2007 06:41:12 Dan Langille wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 3. What is the single best aspect of the current system? Good people doing the heavy lifting 4. What is the

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Too much talk from people not willing to do the heavy lifting. There have been a number of serious attempts and in depth research into various ports system issues (I still need to wade through a rather long one sent to me privately)... an other question did you read

HELP needed by experienced porter for simple review

2007-12-02 Thread GP
Any body? I'm new to porting for FreeBSD and make files aren't my strongest suit. So I would be greatful if I could get an experienced porter to review my make files, for at very simple deamon. I've read the porter handbook and the port seems to be working fine. But I'm uncertain as to what

Re: HELP needed by experienced porter for simple review

2007-12-02 Thread Doug Barton
GP wrote: Hi and welcome! First of all you should install ports-mgmt/portlint and run it against your port (if you haven't done it already). Be sure to use the switch to enable additional checks (I got bitten once because I forgot it). Then you could perhaps put your work online somewhere

Re: HELP needed by experienced porter for simple review

2007-12-02 Thread GP
You should not make changes to /etc/rc.conf at all from a port. Please remove that before submitting. Thanks, Doug Thanks I will, but how should it be done? I must be there for it to work? ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: duration of the ports freeze

2007-12-02 Thread Mark Kirkwood
David Southwell wrote: Before I do so let me step outsiide the freebsd environment and ask what our comments would be if MS$ were to announce that they were about to release an upgrade to their operating system and until the new upgrade had been released upgrades to existing applications

Re: HELP needed by experienced porter for simple review

2007-12-02 Thread Brian
GP wrote: You should not make changes to /etc/rc.conf at all from a port. Please remove that before submitting. Thanks, Doug Thanks I will, but how should it be done? I must be there for it to work? ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: HELP needed by experienced porter for simple review

2007-12-02 Thread GP
Many ports need this to work, sadly it is often not mentioned at the end of make install or the pkg_add. I would love for it to say something like this. We need to make this easier to use when possible. In order for the install of port name to work, it should be activated via /etc.rc.conf,

Re: HELP needed by experienced porter for simple review

2007-12-02 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:37:57 -0600, GP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Ok. thanks. Its simple so I will just put in in this mail. I hope to have the ability to make changes in the source, so I've included the proposed application Makefile as well. Its all working, but I would like to

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Darren Pilgrim wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Too much talk from people not willing to do the heavy lifting. There have been a number of serious attempts and in depth research into various ports system issues (I still need to wade through a

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miguel Mendez wrote: On Dec 2, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Hi, As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
3. What is the single best aspect of the current system? Easy to write ports, or modify those created by others. 4. What is the single worst aspect of the current system? Slowness of pkg_version and make index. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Messenger wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:37:22 -0600, David Southwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 December 2007 06:41:12 Dan Langille wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 3. What is the single best aspect of the