On Tue 26 Apr 2011 at 22:15:58 PDT Zhihao Yuan wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote:
Well, due to some serious philosophical differences re these
deprecation campaigns and what seems to be resistance to any further
discussion, I don't think I can
On Tue 26 Apr 2011 at 23:27:40 PDT John Marino wrote:
You're just sulking because your idea of identifying popular ports
wasn't met with enthusiasm.
No, it's more than that. I got the distinct impression that many of the
committers would be unhappy if I took maintainership of some of the
On Wed 27 Apr 2011 at 14:05:57 PDT Eitan Adler wrote:
apache13 is EOL upstream. We should not have ports for EOL software.
Why not, exactly?..
What happens if a security hole or a bug is found? Are we the ones to
fix it?
No. The rule of caveat emptor should apply. We don't warranty
On Wed 27 Apr 2011 at 16:15:19 PDT Jerry wrote:
Following through on that logic, only the highest priority items would
ever get done. Since there is a never ending list of things that have
to be done at any given time, the lowest priority ones would never get
any attention.
Which is as it
On Mon 25 Apr 2011 at 22:55:10 PDT Ade Lovett wrote:
On Apr 25, 2011, at 21:41 , Charlie Kester wrote:
Maybe freshports could implement a voting system like the one at
osx.iusethis.com?
Voting implies some kind of democracy.
I just thought it might be useful to get some actual data
On Tue 26 Apr 2011 at 09:34:24 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
I'm not a web programmer and don't have access to the freshports
sourcecode. So all I can do there is make a suggestion. But perhaps I'll
take some time to go through the list of unmaintained ports and manually
check them against
On Tue 26 Apr 2011 at 14:27:47 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
On Tue 26 Apr 2011 at 09:34:24 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
I'm not a web programmer and don't have access to the freshports
sourcecode. So all I can do there is make a suggestion. But perhaps I'll
take some time to go through the list
Well, due to some serious philosophical differences re these
deprecation campaigns and what seems to be resistance to any further
discussion, I don't think I can continue working with the committers.
So I'm stepping down.
If no one else wants to maintain them, please reset the maintainer of
On Mon 25 Apr 2011 at 17:48:31 PDT Doug Barton wrote:
What we're trying to do here is to eliminate ports that are no longer
useful.
If we had some popularity stats, it would be interesting to see where
the unmaintained ports fall on the list. Unfortunately, bsdstats
doesn't include this
On Sun 10 Apr 2011 at 23:03:34 PDT Leslie Jensen wrote:
I get the error below when updating/installing sudo
everything in the file /usr/local/etc/sudoers near line 97
is commented out!
If the comment just before line 97 is to be believed, the line beginning
with #include is NOT commented
On Thu 31 Mar 2011 at 22:57:44 PDT Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
So, while removing OPTIONS alone may be good, we really need to
dismantle the system that caused the need for them in the first place
to avoid creating a greater mess. I think it coud be useful to turn
to Wikipedia for an example (and
On Sat 19 Mar 2011 at 12:18:42 PDT Olivier Smedts wrote:
2011/3/19 Michal Varga varga.mic...@gmail.com:
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 09:49 +0800, Martin Wilke wrote:
Attached is a proposed list of ports being moved from the www category.
Please review, discuss and report ommissions and mistakes. The
On Thu 17 Mar 2011 at 03:36:38 PDT Pietro Cerutti wrote:
Well, this is not how it works. There are a lot of old ports which are
not being developped upstreams anymore. Probably nobody is interested
in maintaining those, because there's nothing to do to those ports
other than fixing potential
On Wed 16 Mar 2011 at 03:45:25 PDT Matthias Andree wrote:
However, we should be sure to find maintainers before ports are
undeprecated, else we run into a cycle of deprecation, reviving the
port, deprecating it again, and so on.
I definitely agree with this. If someone wants to get one of
On Tue 15 Mar 2011 at 11:20:40 PDT Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
3. Fix Clang to compile more ports
That would be my vote too, but we should probably focus on solutions the
ports team can control.
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On Tue 15 Mar 2011 at 11:39:28 PDT Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
15.03.2011, 21:32, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net:
On Tue 15 Mar 2011 at 11:20:40 PDT Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
3. Fix Clang to compile more ports
That would be my vote too, but we should probably focus on solutions
I see there's been another few batch commits deprecating some
unmaintained ports where upstream is gone and/or distfile is no longer
available.
Maintainers and prospective maintainers should be sure to look at the
ports listed in these commits. I don't think much effort was made to
check the
On Tue 15 Mar 2011 at 14:59:57 PDT Jason Helfman wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 02:58:01PM -0700, Charlie Kester thus spake:
I see there's been another few batch commits deprecating some
unmaintained ports where upstream is gone and/or distfile is no longer
available.
Maintainers
On Tue 15 Mar 2011 at 15:19:29 PDT Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
I am responsible for the deprecation and I have done more than just
look if the distfiles fetch (I fixed lot of them) I may have missed
some for sure, when when I deprecate sysutils/lookat I wasn't able to
join the main website nor
On Sat 12 Mar 2011 at 13:53:07 PST Mark Linimon wrote:
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:28:40AM +0100, Hans Ottevanger wrote:
If anybody is interested I could consolidate my results and post a few patches.
I would like to see them.
This is the kind of really-dull-but-necessary work that we need to
On Sat 12 Mar 2011 at 14:21:35 PST Mark Linimon wrote:
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:12:34PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
I'm not aware of any tool that will display a similar dependency tree
for a port *before* it is installed.
http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portdependencytree.py
Note: it's
On Sat 12 Mar 2011 at 15:25:09 PST Doug Barton wrote:
On 03/12/2011 14:12, Charlie Kester wrote:
I'm not aware of any tool that will display a similar dependency tree
for a port *before* it is installed.
portmaster doesn't _quite_ do that, but it does walk you through all of
the config
On Sat 12 Mar 2011 at 15:57:09 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
What's really needed are better tools to help maintainers see what
their ports are installing, and for them to exercise more disciple in
asking Is this really necessary, or should I make it optional? Is it
really a run dependency
On Sat 12 Mar 2011 at 18:28:42 PST Doug Barton wrote:
On 03/12/2011 18:13, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Charlie Kestercorky1...@comcast.net wrote:
A few minutes ago, I was answering a post on the forums, in which
a user expressed surprise (and outrage) that the phpmyadmin port
was installing
On Fri 04 Mar 2011 at 18:23:47 PST Aryeh Friedman wrote:
I had to reinstall all my ports from scratch to fix this... for how to
do this safely see the last example of the man page for portmaster
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Scott T. Hildreth sh...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I updated my server to
On Sat 05 Mar 2011 at 09:51:39 PST Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 09:27 -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
BTW, I haven't confirmed this yet, but the orage configure step seems to
enable libical support if the library is found, overriding the WITH_ICAL
option. When I put the above
I don't want or need all of the programs in the libreoffice suite.
In fact, the only reason I might install it is to get the presentation
program so I can work with PowerPoint files I occasionally download from
the web. (There don't seem to be any workable, lighterweight
alternatives, as there
On Wed 02 Mar 2011 at 15:06:52 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
I don't want or need all of the programs in the libreoffice suite.
In fact, the only reason I might install it is to get the presentation
program so I can work with PowerPoint files I occasionally download from
the web. (There don't seem
On Sun 27 Feb 2011 at 12:24:06 PST Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
I am the maintainer of the port vis5d+. I just got this email (copied
below) saying that vis5d+ isn't building right now.
The issue seems to be that some reference to __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx is
included twice at some point.
On Fri 04 Feb 2011 at 10:58:28 PST Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Thierry Thomas thie...@freebsd.org writes:
Le ven 4 fév 11 à 17:01:37 +0100, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com
écrivait :
It finally came through on portsnap late yesterday. The install phase
still filled up my /tmp drive, so
On Wed 26 Jan 2011 at 01:13:50 PST Emanuel Haupt wrote:
Sahil Tandon sa...@freebsd.org wrote:
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 16:17:29 -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
Today on FreshPorts I see some bulk commits adding LICENSE info to
40+ ports. And I've noticed LICENSE being added in many other recent
Today on FreshPorts I see some bulk commits adding LICENSE info to 40+
ports. And I've noticed LICENSE being added in many other recent commits.
But I still don't see anything in the Porter's Handbook about how
maintainers should use this infrastructure in their ports.
I thought we were
On Tue 25 Jan 2011 at 19:46:36 PST Sahil Tandon wrote:
It's entirely up to you; no requirement.
Understood, thanks.
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On Sun 23 Jan 2011 at 00:25:47 PST Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
Thomas, good day.
Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 08:25:23AM +0100, Thomas Dettbarn wrote:
is there some formal way of suggesting a program for your ports
collection?
Thanks for porting this so quickly, Eygene.
One small request, however, for
On Wed 05 Jan 2011 at 07:55:38 PST Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
Hello;
I was just looking around FreeBSD's Wiki and I found a page
where ports with GPLv3 license are listed:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsAndGPLv3
While this list is necessarily incomplete, I would think
the right place to write the
On Mon 13 Dec 2010 at 11:22:26 PST Doug Barton wrote:
I think some ports have split the docs into their own port, e.g.,
gimp. Is that a reasonable approach here? The fact that a lot of the
gnome stuff A) makes docs by default, B) with no option to turn it
off, which C) pulls in a ton of
On Wed 08 Dec 2010 at 09:22:40 PST Ade Lovett wrote:
On Dec 07, 2010, at 19:09 , Jonathan wrote:
${PATCH_WRKSRC} and $$file from ${LIBTOOLFILES} have the full path to
the target file which when combined causes the not found error. I'm
guessing this has something to do with the recent
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 at 14:33:24 PST Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:27:02 -0800
Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote:
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 at 07:47:41 PST Peter Pentchev wrote:
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 06:27:54PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
I'm getting a strange error while
I'm getting a strange error while trying to install the handbrake port:
=== Configuring for handbrake-0.9.3
sed:
/usr/ports/multimedia/handbrake/work/HandBrake-0.9.3//usr/ports/multimedia/handbrake/work/HandBrake-0.9.3/configure:
No such file or directory
*** Error code 1
Stop in
On Mon 22 Nov 2010 at 11:28:36 PST Greg Byshenk wrote:
I'm not a porter, but how about the below...?
HTH
-greg
--- begin diff ---
--- porting-submitting.html 2007-09-11 01:11:07.0 +0200
+++ porting-submitting.html 2010-11-22 20:14:54.0 +0100
@@ -69,6 +69,14 @@
On Sun 21 Nov 2010 at 20:09:23 PST Beech Rintoul wrote:
That is correct, although it is possible to use a unified diff with the -N
flag against a non existent source. The problem is too many contributors send
in update pr's in shar format which are a real PITA to deal with from our end.
You
On Sun 21 Nov 2010 at 22:01:28 PST Janky Jay, III wrote:
Almost anyone who is an only semi-serious port maintainer (meaning
they only have a select few number of ports to maintain and are only
trying to contribute/participate) knows that maybe this issue is due
to the porter's handbook.
I'm working on a new port that installs a program with a name that seems
like it would already be taken, but I don't have anything by that name
on my system -- even though I have lots of ports installed.
I know that I can use portsdb -r to find all the ports that depend on
a given port, whether
On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 17:23:37 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
I'm working on a new port that installs a program with a name that seems
like it would already be taken, but I don't have anything by that name
on my system -- even though I have lots of ports installed.
I know that I can use portsdb -r
On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 19:33:01 PST Robert Huff wrote:
Charlie Kester writes:
On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 17:23:37 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
I'm working on a new port that installs a program with a name that seems
like it would already be taken, but I don't have anything by that name
on my
On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 20:34:30 PST Robert Huff wrote:
Charlie Kester writes:
But I expect these two find greps will detect the majority of
filename conflicts. Unless someone has a better recommendation,
I'll settle for less than perfect.
If this is a one-time thing, your best
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/151443
I hate to nag, but will one of the committers please give this PR some
attention? It's been almost a month with no visible activity.
If there's something more you need from me as the maintainer, please let
me know. But I think this one
On Sat 16 Oct 2010 at 12:11:41 PDT Warren Block wrote:
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
So, does the xf86-video-intel29 port work with Ironlake graphics now?
I don't think so (although I don't have newer Intel video to test),
but there's hope (from yesterday):
On Mon 27 Sep 2010 at 12:32:56 PDT Tobias Roth wrote:
x11/fbpanel : Desktop panel with taskbar, pager, launchbar and more
I use this and can take maintainership.
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On Thu 23 Sep 2010 at 20:39:25 PDT Alexander Kojevnikov wrote:
Hi list,
Since the only SUBJ I could find [0] is long since dead I created my own:
http://updating.versia.com/
Any feedback is welcome.
Cool idea! Count me as another subscriber.
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On Thu 02 Sep 2010 at 08:56:50 PDT Tim Kientzle wrote:
On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:34 AM, David Forsythe wrote:
Separating ports and packages is silly, because they need to coexist.
Like gcooper pointed out, ports should be using the pkg tools to build
and install packages.
I've been impressed
Problem resolved!
I should have taken Doug's advice in the first place. Manually deleting
the files left over after make deinstall of py-reportlab and py-xml
did NOT fix the problem. But Doug's procedure worked.
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On Mon 16 Aug 2010 at 20:40:44 PDT b. f. wrote:
A while back I aborted a recursive update (bad idea, I know now) and
must have messed up something in whatever info portmaster uses to decide
whether to re-install a port. Now, whenever I use portmaster -a, it
re-installs py26-imaging,
On Tue 17 Aug 2010 at 14:22:21 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
Tried manually de-installing py-reportlab and got a similar error
message from pkg_delete about not being able to delete
site-packages/reportlab. This looks promising. I'll clean this stuff
out manually and then reinstall, as I did
A while back I aborted a recursive update (bad idea, I know now) and
must have messed up something in whatever info portmaster uses to decide
whether to re-install a port. Now, whenever I use portmaster -a, it
re-installs py26-imaging, py26-reportlab and py26-xml.
Every time.
And it's a
On Mon 16 Aug 2010 at 19:48:23 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
A while back I aborted a recursive update (bad idea, I know now) and
must have messed up something in whatever info portmaster uses to decide
whether to re-install a port. Now, whenever I use portmaster -a, it
re-installs py26-imaging
On Fri 06 Aug 2010 at 11:51:05 PDT Frank Steinborn wrote:
multimedia/gpodder
I can take this one.
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This LICENSE stuff is beginning to look more complex than it seemed at
first.
From this thread I gather that maintainers are going to have to do a bit
more than simply check a box. Here, for example, we see some well-known
licenses that don't readily identify themselves as such. How can a
On Sat 12 Jun 2010 at 12:14:03 PDT Mark Linimon wrote:
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 05:32:10PM +, Terry Poulin wrote:
Just noticed that they moved to github
http://github.com/zdia/gorilla and the current version is 1.5.3,
rather than the 1.4.4 version in the ports tree. I don't use the
program,
On Sun 30 May 2010 at 13:20:55 PDT Rene Ladan wrote:
Hi,
While adding license information to my ports (to be committed), I
stumbled upon the following:
Is this something all maintainers should be doing?
Yesterday, while upgrading my installed ports, I noticed a message in
the output about
On Sun 30 May 2010 at 14:40:38 PDT Wesley Shields wrote:
I'd also say that if you have a regular update planned for a port that
you submit the license information with that.
Yeah, phasing it in along with other work makes sense.
/visions of 20,000+ new PR's doing nothing but adding LICENSE
On Sun 23 May 2010 at 17:05:04 PDT Julien Laffaye wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hoffman phoff...@proper.com wrote:
Greetings again. A few years ago, I proposed editors/emacs-nox11 and submitted
a patch to create it, and thus became listed in the comments at the beginning
On Wed 19 May 2010 at 05:10:49 PDT jhell wrote:
Adding to this bundle of madness...
I believe that it would be best practice to keep ports/LEGAL up-to-date
with this list.
Those who already have ports on a machine may find it more usefull to
find them there.
Quoting ports/LEGAL:
Some of the
Will someone with edit privileges for the wiki please add the following to the
list of GPLv3-licensed ports (http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsAndGPLv3)?
math/ised
misc/xsw
sysutils/rdup
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On Sun 02 May 2010 at 14:03:06 PDT Andrius Mork??nas wrote:
On Sun, 02 May 2010 23:17:00 +0300, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com
wrote:
Good - and those 30% of ports will help improve clang++ even more.
Some probably will, we submit a lot of bug reports for clang/llvm.
Hopefully over
On Thu 22 Apr 2010 at 08:48:55 PDT Rob Farmer wrote:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net wrote:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:18:29AM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
On 22/04/2010 01:45, Rob Farmer wrote:
I maintain math/scilab and am preparing to update it. This
On Sun 28 Mar 2010 at 06:38:28 PDT Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
Hi,
As announced before, a few big commits, that touch some thousands ports
are being done: png, curl, x11, gnome, kde4. The target ETA is 6-7
April.
The first one was done, update of graphics/png (including a shared lib
version bump),
On Tue 30 Mar 2010 at 04:55:01 PDT Matthias Andree wrote:
I don't think this proposal is useful. Technically it would work, but socially
it wouldn't. Why? RELENG_* tagging would require that port maintainers oversee
the implications for all supported FreeBSD releases, possibly run tinderboxen
On Sat 27 Mar 2010 at 09:34:54 PDT Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
Le Saturday 27 Mar 2010 à 17:32:42 (+0100), Marco Beishuizen a écrit :
Hi,
I was wondering why LyX in the FreeBSD ports isn't upgraded anymore. The
current version in ports is still 1.5.7, but the latest LyX version is
1.6.5. The
On Fri 19 Mar 2010 at 10:24:51 PDT Programmer In Training wrote:
On 03/19/10 11:48, Jerry wrote:
Is there any reason that you don't simply install 'bash'? I use it as
my shell and love it.
It came on very strong recommendation from one of my geek friends as an
alternative to bash (which he
On Fri 19 Mar 2010 at 18:19:53 PDT jhell wrote:
The above mentioned port installs or otherwise scatters quite a few
(10 or more) new directories into /usr/local/. Did I miss some
configuration setting that I had to explicitly state in order for
everything to just be installed in
On Tue 09 Mar 2010 at 10:25:14 PST Gary Jennejohn wrote:
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:23:51 -0500
Steven Kreuzer skreu...@freebsd.org wrote:
Hello-
As documented in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/144277
we have two ports with the same name:
Port: gag-2.9
Path:
On Thu 25 Feb 2010 at 12:17:59 PST simp...@gmail.com wrote:
News 2010 - February 15 - Bluefish 2.0.0 released!
I can't find it in the latest ports collection.
Others have explained how to contact the maintainer of a port, and how
to determine that it has no maintainer.
But perhaps some
On Tue 16 Feb 2010 at 10:27:56 PST Doug Barton wrote:
On 2/16/2010 7:33 AM, Jeroen Schot wrote:
Hello all,
I want to provide a port for a set of small utilities[1], all in the same
scope and from the same upstream, to FreeBSD. Since all are very small
(around 100 line of C), making seven
On Fri 12 Feb 2010 at 10:25:51 PST Dominic Fandrey wrote:
Hmm, I just tested it, because my port sysutils contains pkg_libchk,
which has a very similar function.
[...]
It doesn't have libchk's ability to list unused libraries, though.
Libchk's manpage contains a warning about this. You
On Thu 28 Jan 2010 at 13:37:06 PST Doug Barton wrote:
Any time you send someone a patch for any reason that deletes an
existing file it is worthwhile to call the person's attention to this
fact.
When you submit a port/update that ADDS a file it is definitely
worthwhile to mention this as
On Thu 28 Jan 2010 at 18:25:30 PST Alberto Villa wrote:
On 1/28/10, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote:
On Thu 28 Jan 2010 at 13:37:06 PST Doug Barton wrote:
When you submit a port/update that ADDS a file it is definitely
worthwhile to mention this as well.
Good advice that should
I've decided to drop maintainership of two of my ports, since I haven't
been able to give them the attention they are due:
graphics/bmeps
devel/dklibs
bmeps and dklibs are by the same author, and bmeps depends on dklibs. So
if someone take one of these, he should probably also
On Sat 02 Jan 2010 at 09:14:11 PST Julien Laffaye wrote:
2010/1/2 Nikola Le??i?? nikola.le...@anthesphoria.net:
Hello,
portmaster's feature to print collected pkg-message files after
successful installation is very useful. However, there are many ports
that echo messages from inside Makefile,
On Sat 02 Jan 2010 at 13:32:05 PST Wesley Shields wrote:
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 01:11:38PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
Sometimes whether a message is echoed depends on a knob. The porter's
handbook includes examples of this. Is there a way to get the same
effect with pkg-messages?
See
On Wed 04 Nov 2009 at 15:14:24 PST Zane C.B. wrote:
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:10:47 -0500
Jeremy Messenger me...@cox.net wrote:
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:30:59 -0500, Dmitry Marakasov
amd...@amdmi3.ru wrote:
Hi!
I need a new version of webkit, because the one that is currently
in the ports tree
On Thu 10 Sep 2009 at 19:01:23 PDT Glen Barber wrote:
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:01:00 -0400, Peter Beckman
beck...@angryox.com wrote:
I'll work on learning how to build the package so I can submit a
diff rather than a request.
The Porter's Handbook is a good place to start:
On Tue 04 Aug 2009 at 09:21:07 PDT Diego Depaoli wrote:
2009/8/4 Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org:
Diego Depaoli wrote:
There are too many ports and too few people who care them.
IMHO the options are:
- decrease the number of ports
We trim dead/useless ports all the time.
- increase the number
On Wed 15 Jul 2009 at 14:08:18 PDT Martin Tournoij wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:47:19 -0500, lini...@freebsd.org wrote:
I have noticed some maintainer-timeouts on ports that you maintain.
Please let me know if you are still interested in these ports;
otherwise,
I would like to reassign them.
On Tue 14 Jul 2009 at 03:00:04 PDT 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
On Tue 14 Jul 2009 at 15:15:25 PDT Glen Barber wrote:
I swear I asked about this a few weeks ago...
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-June/03.html
The problems I reported then are still present in the latest build
error report.
I guess that's why the subject of this
On Wed 24 Jun 2009 at 06:56:10 PDT Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
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On June 23, 2009 04:36:08 pm Charlie Kester wrote:
On Tue 23 Jun 2009 at 12:05:55 PDT Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
Localization is a subset Internationalization, so the new category
becomes
On Tue 23 Jun 2009 at 12:05:55 PDT Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
Localization is a subset Internationalization, so the new category
becomes a catch all for both entities.
If i18n is too cryptic or too alphanumeric, and internationalization is
too long, why not go with nls?
I'm porting some software that has a build dependency on docbook2man in
order to generate its manpages from .docbook files.
Testing the port in tinderbox takes a long time, most of it because of
the need to build the docbook infrastructure. It seems a shame to use
all that CPU time and install
On Wed 17 Jun 2009 at 13:24:32 PDT Greg Larkin wrote:
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Charlie Kester wrote:
I'm porting some software that has a build dependency on docbook2man in
order to generate its manpages from .docbook files.
Testing the port in tinderbox takes a long time
http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=sysutilsportname=ncdu
The portsmon page for one of the ports I maintain says it is no longer a valid
port.
sysutils/ncdu is no longer a valid port: (deleted but missing from
/usr/ports/MOVED)
I recently submitted an update for ncdu 1.5,
* Thomas Abthorpe tabtho...@freebsd.org [2009-02-12 12:32:13 -0500]:
At any given time, approximately 20 - 25% of all ports are unmaintained. Not
all unmaintained ports need updating, but some do. That is where you folks
come in.
There are a bunch of you out there who are subscribers to
* Thomas Abthorpe tabtho...@freebsd.org [2009-02-12 14:20:31 -0500]:
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On February 12, 2009 01:52:43 pm Charlie Kester wrote:
I plead guilty and will look through the list of unmaintained ports to
see if there are any where my skills and interests
* Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com [2009-02-12 13:26:46 -0600]:
--On Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:32:13 -0600 Thomas Abthorpe
tabtho...@freebsd.org wrote:
The gauntlet has been thrown down, who among you is prepared to pick it up?
How about providing a list of the ports that need
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