Re: portsnap

2020-12-30 Thread Edward Sanford Sutton, III
On 12/28/20 6:06 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> Kudos to Stefan for keeping portmaster relevant and up-to-date. >> But I never understood the appeal of portsnap. What's the advantage over > >> svnlite co ... >> cd /usr/ports; make update > >> This mechanism is in the base system, so an extra tool dem

Re: portmaster new development

2020-12-28 Thread Edward Sanford Sutton, III
On 12/27/20 4:00 AM, LuMiWa via freebsd-ports wrote: > The subject is 'portmaster new development' but again start pushing > poudriere to FreeBSD users. I do not use zfs file system and I do not > use poudriere and I do not want to use on my computer for building some > ports and then spending hour

Are broken ports retested before performing scheduled removal?

2020-05-13 Thread Edward Sanford Sutton, III
games/oneko was recently removed as it was marked broken due to being unfetchable. I tried an old copy of the ports tree I had where it was marked as such and `make fetch -DTRYBROKEN` succeeded. Was there an error recorded for this and was it ever retested? Is this just a side effect of having a

How to best handle ports mislinking against locally installed copies?

2011-03-26 Thread Edward Sanford Sutton, III
up other examples I have ran into in detail but was wondering about the general approach and if the freebsd ports tree likes to fix it, note it, or ignore it? Thanks again, Edward Sanford Sutton, III ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

distfile questions

2006-10-25 Thread Edward Sanford Sutton, III
On a couple ports I am working on, availability is only in the form of cvs/svn. I made a temporary prefetch section for my own convenience which calls up a particular revision off the server, compresses an archive of it, and places it in the distfiles directory (thus leaving fetch happy as lon