FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked broken

2012-01-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically notify users of ports that are marked as broken in their Makefiles. In many cases these ports are failing to compile on some subset of the FreeBSD build environments. The most common

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked broken

2012-01-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically notify users of ports that are marked as broken in their Makefiles. In many cases these ports are failing to compile on some subset of the FreeBSD build environments. The most common

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-01-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-01-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked forbidden

2012-01-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically notify users about ports that are marked as forbidden in their Makefiles. Often, these ports are so marked due to security concerns, such as known exploits. An overview of each port,

Re: FreeBSD Port: couchdb-1.1.0_2,1

2012-01-21 Thread Herby Vojčík
Whatever, just fix it, please. Thanks, Herby Doug Barton wrote: On 01/19/2012 07:39, Herby Vojčík wrote: The couchdb_prestart function gets run (I put echos in there), but its couchdb_flags is not taken into account. The proper solution here is almost certainly to change couchdb_flags to

Re: FreeBSD Port: couchdb-1.1.0_2,1

2012-01-21 Thread Doug Barton
Can you test the fix that I proposed and let us know if it works? Thanks, Doug On 01/21/2012 01:30 AM, Herby Vojčík wrote: Whatever, just fix it, please. Thanks, Herby Doug Barton wrote: On 01/19/2012 07:39, Herby Vojčík wrote: The couchdb_prestart function gets run (I put echos in

Re: FreeBSD Port: couchdb-1.1.0_2,1

2012-01-21 Thread Herby Vojčík
It works. With command_args, not commands_args, of course :-) The rc script has another flaw: it can run start multiple times (but I'd like to have the commands_args fix being published regardless of multi-start, that is different thing). Thanks, Herby Doug Barton wrote: Can you test the

arlib and clang question

2012-01-21 Thread Michael Scheidell
When was arlib fixed with clang? does anyone know? this pr submission takes out the test: .if defined(WITH_ARLIB) -. if ${CC} == clang -BROKEN= ARLIB option does not compile with clang -. endif http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/163984 but, if arlib WAS broken, and is

-exp needed. anyone using tripwire?

2012-01-21 Thread scheidell
Due to the 'IS_INTERACTIVE' in Makefile, and, in fact, in the ports/src Makefile, this won't package, which means this won't tinderbox (and PH will complain). I have seen pr's in the past that tried to fix this issue, but it never went away. (you install this, and it goes to tripwire web site,

Re: with the cvs history? trying to help INDEX builds.

2012-01-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58:04AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: By my calculations there are 28 ports that set 'BROKEN' because of architecture incompatibility on my amd64 system IMHO these Makefiles are broken and should be fixed. mcl ___

Re: with the cvs history? trying to help INDEX builds.

2012-01-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:20:05AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Actually I take your point, that it should be possible to distinguish between ports that permanently won't work on some architectures by design, and ports that temporarily don't work because of mistakes or broken dependencies or

Re: Any plans to update salt to 0.9.5?

2012-01-21 Thread Ruslan Mahmatkhanov
Christer Edwards wrote on 20.01.2012 19:09: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Doug Bartondo...@freebsd.org wrote: I've been evaluating salt, and would prefer not to deploy prior to the msgpack update in 0.9.5. I am hoping to get the port updated today, yes. Thanks for the additional nudge to

Re: with the cvs history? trying to help INDEX builds.

2012-01-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:53:23PM +, Chris Rees wrote: Occasionally someone runs an exp- for sparc64 (lol) etc. You're conflating two different ideas. The arch is orthogonal to TRYBROKEN. They use TRYBROKEN to test packages marked BROKEN, but ONLY_FOR_ARCHS sets IGNORE. This part is

Re: with the cvs history? trying to help INDEX builds.

2012-01-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 05:16:08AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: On 01/20/2012 04:53, Chris Rees wrote: Occasionally someone runs an exp- for sparc64 (lol) etc. ... which given the overwhelming lack of users for this platform is almost certainly a waste of resources. When we switch to

Re: with the cvs history? trying to help INDEX builds.

2012-01-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 Jan 2012 19:51, Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:53:23PM +, Chris Rees wrote: Occasionally someone runs an exp- for sparc64 (lol) etc. You're conflating two different ideas. The arch is orthogonal to TRYBROKEN. Perhaps I didn't phrase it

Re: with the cvs history? trying to help INDEX builds.

2012-01-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/01/2012 19:33, Mark Linimon wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58:04AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: By my calculations there are 28 ports that set 'BROKEN' because of architecture incompatibility on my amd64 system IMHO these Makefiles are broken and should be fixed. Actually,

so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-21 Thread Michael Scheidell
I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more that would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix some device drivers). He asked how many? Well, I sure can't go back to him and tell him

databases/mysql-workbench52

2012-01-21 Thread t...@diogunix.com
Dear all, I've stumbled across a weird issue with building the databases/mysql- workbench52 port on a brandnew / fresh FreeBSD 9 RELEASE machine: /usr/ports/databases/mysql-workbench52# make install === mysql-workbench-oss52-5.2.1_5 cannot install: does not work with MySQL version 55 (MySQL

Re: databases/mysql-workbench52

2012-01-21 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 1/21/12 3:00 PM, t...@diogunix.com wrote: Dear all, I've stumbled across a weird issue with building the databases/mysql- workbench52 port on a brandnew / fresh FreeBSD 9 RELEASE machine: its in the makefile for mysql-workbench51 DEFAULT_MYSQL_VER= 51 IGNORE_WITH_MYSQL= 41 55

NOT_FOR_ARCHS considered harmful [was: with the cvs history? trying to help INDEX builds.]

2012-01-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:20:05AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Actually I take your point, that it should be possible to distinguish between ports that permanently won't work on some architectures by design, and ports that temporarily don't work because of mistakes or broken dependencies or

LDFLAGS mystery

2012-01-21 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
If I build a port that uses USE_FORTRAN, then the variable ${LDFLAGS} has an extra space in it. For example %cd /usr/ports/math/lapack %make -V LDFLAGS -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc46 %make -V MAKE_ENV LDFLAGS= -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc46 ... I am trying to create a port in which

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-21 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500 Michael Scheidell articulated: I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more that would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix some device drivers).

Re: databases/mysql-workbench52

2012-01-21 Thread Maxim Ignatenko
On сб, 21 січ 2012 22:22:50 Michael Scheidell wrote: On 1/21/12 3:00 PM, t...@diogunix.com wrote: Dear all, I've stumbled across a weird issue with building the databases/mysql- workbench52 port on a brandnew / fresh FreeBSD 9 RELEASE machine: its in the makefile for mysql-workbench51

Re: Any plans to update salt to 0.9.5?

2012-01-21 Thread Christer Edwards
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov cvs-...@yandex.ru wrote: JFYI. There is 0.9.6 already. The core Salt team is in LA at SCaLE this weekend and getting a lot of attention. We rolled 0.9.6 last night in the hotel lobby, but I've been so busy with conference stuff I haven't

Re: ports/164244: multimedia/mplayer: last update (1.0.r20111218) conflicts with devel/ncurses

2012-01-21 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:00:04 +0100 Thomas Zander thomas.e.zan...@googlemail.com wrote: But the takeaway is that we can't expect the PR submitters, or even port maintainers, to get anything right.  It sure makes life easier when they do, but we can't take it for granted. As committers, we

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware. On Sunday 22 January 2012 04:10:24 Jerry wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500 Michael Scheidell articulated: I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and

Re: LDFLAGS mystery

2012-01-21 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 01/21/2012 03:02 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: If I build a port that uses USE_FORTRAN, then the variable ${LDFLAGS} has an extra space in it. For example %cd /usr/ports/math/lapack %make -V LDFLAGS -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc46 %make -V MAKE_ENV LDFLAGS=

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-21 Thread Colin Baker
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:12:53 -0600, Michael Scheidell scheid...@freebsd.org wrote: I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more that would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix

Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

2012-01-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. maybe the correct(er) solution would be We've got a couple of companies who would love to take on the responsibility of hacking on and testing the vmware driver support for FreeBSD, please consider negotiating an NDA to get whatever source opened up? Adrian On 21 January 2012 12:12, Michael