Re: [ANNOUNCE]: clang compiling ports

2011-06-30 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 08:19:05AM +, b. f. wrote: > Is there a new link for the new results? Or did you use the link above? same link. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubsc

Re: [ANNOUNCE]: clang compiling ports

2011-06-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:21:26PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > A permanent URL to this run is: > > > http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/amd64-errorlogs/e.9-exp.20110616185105/ > > That will stick around even if we use amd64-9-exp for something else. I have up

Re: GHC Port on 9-CURRENT

2011-06-27 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 03:54:28AM +, b. f. wrote: > Please don't hardcode the compilers +1. One of the Next Big Tasks is to be able to use a compiler other than the system default, for ports. Please don't make this work more painful than it will already be :-) mcl _

Re: [ANNOUNCE]: clang compiling ports

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 05:37:53PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote: > Flz@ just ran an exp-build with CC=clang and CXX=clang++. The results can be > seen here: > > http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/amd64-9-exp-latest/ A permanent URL to this run is: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/

Re: RFC: some patches to the Porter's Handbook

2011-06-01 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:10:06AM +0200, Carsten Jensen wrote: > While doing the revision, would it be too much trouble to add a section > for web apps ? Sorry, I don't know enough about them to add that section ... mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org ma

RFC: some patches to the Porter's Handbook

2011-05-31 Thread Mark Linimon
When going through the "Using" sections, I always get irritated by having to figure out where the makevars that they are talking about are defined. This patch adds some crossrefs to the CVSWeb pages for them. (In a few cases, the filenames were mentioned, but they weren't CVSWeb references.) Doe

Re: build failure of ganglia-monitor-core-3.1.7

2011-05-30 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 02:37:42AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > Does it work for you on any other platforms? For the record, the canonical answer can be found at: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=sysutils&portname=ganglia-monitor-core&wildcard= However, it has been a while si

Re: Fwd: Re: Dropping maintainership of my ports

2011-05-02 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 10:01:48PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I'd like to take maintainership of > > astro/xearth > textproc/urlview done. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To

Re: How are [MAINTAINER] patches handled and why aren't PRs FIFO?

2011-04-28 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:55:35PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > Would you please rewrite it in basic English using proper sentence > structure. Please note: although the primary language of the project is English, probably less than half of FreeBSD committers are native Enligsh speakers. See ports/xearth

Re: Dropping maintainership of my ports

2011-04-28 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:23:23AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Maybe, if maintainer can "somehow easily" become ports committer, > this hurdle might be lower ? This has been discussed before. The barrier to entry is currently set at the "seems to be willing to work on FreeBSD over a period of man

Re: How are [MAINTAINER] patches handled and why aren't PRs FIFO?

2011-04-28 Thread Mark Linimon
Let's play "let's pretend". Let's pretend I'n on the ports management team (true). Let's pretend I have enough influence to talk the rest of the ports management team into agreeing with me (very debatable, based on past performance.) Then, let's pretend that portmgr promotes a new policy, "all P

Re: saving a few ports from death

2011-04-26 Thread Mark Linimon
I need to migrate portsmon to another server so that we can start up these periodic emails again. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsub

Re: GNU make 3.82 update

2011-04-12 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:03:58AM -0500, Brandon Gooch wrote: > What port is it? Sorry, I can't determine from the previous message... ports/lang/io, Small prototype-based programming language mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: net/ndisc6 mainteinership

2011-04-09 Thread Mark Linimon
done, thanks. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: libcii upgrade

2011-04-01 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:52:16PM +0200, Franco Marchesini wrote: > can you upgrade the libcii port to version 2? "po...@freebsd.org" is a placeholder that assigns maintainership to the general mailing list. For best results, you should submit a PR with a patch to update the port. Otherwise, it

Re: [HEADS UP] Ports Infrastructure Changes

2011-03-19 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 04:34:17PM +0800, wen heping wrote: > devel category is the largest one, how about divide it into : > > devel > devel-perl > devel-python My own view is that naming the categories by language (e.g. "java") is not a good idea. I'd rather divide things up by what they do, r

Re: Deprecation campaign

2011-03-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:36:38AM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > all these efforts to rescue the ports are all good, but: do we actually > > _need_ the ports? Just having one more port isn't a value in itself. > > It's a potential value. Having one port less is a potential loss. Potential va

Re: Deprecation campaign

2011-03-17 Thread Mark Linimon
For those that want to see the state of all this, you can check out the following URL: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portsconcordancefordeprecated.py In particular, the "interesting" entries for you may be the unmaintained ports (e.g. maintainer = "po...@freebsd.org".) In some of the other case

Re: deprecated ports

2011-03-16 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:15:11AM +, b. f. wrote: > But it's not clear to me why, for example, some usable fonts were > deprecated -- fonts often don't have homepages. The deprecations are (currently) advisory-only. If people are using these ports, and want to keep them, then they need to st

Re: deprecated ports

2011-03-16 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:45:25AM +0100, 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. That's the purpose of a long deprecation period + the pe

Re: Compiling ports in a post-9.0-RELEASE world

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:00:33PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > 1. Fix all ports to compile with both gcc 4.2 (for RELENG_[78]) and clang. I do not believe we have enough time before 9.0R to accomplish this; especially as I understand that there is pressure within the src committer community to sim

Re: [HEADS UP] GNU make 3.82

2011-03-13 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 08:27:27AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On several occasion, Doug has asked for the results of the gmake 3.82 > exp run. This request (which seems perfectly reasonable to me) has > been consistently ignored. Provided in email in this thread two days ago; annotated, at a hi

Re: Fwd: prelminary analysis of the gmake3.82 -exp run

2011-03-13 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:39:26AM +0100, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > Augmented with a crude estimate of ports affected by these breakages > (via grepping INDEX, basically). With a little detective work, you can get that from pointyhat. e.g. the "Aff." ("Affects") column in http://pointyhat-west.

Re: [HEADS UP] GNU make 3.82

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 06:00:40PM -0600, Ade Lovett wrote: > Throwing out a PR with "exp-run probably desirable" is not particularly > useful, and shows a certain naivety when it comes to such wide-ranging > changes. This seems a little harsh to me. OTOH, I think it's become much clearer to me d

Re: [HEADS UP] GNU make 3.82

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
replying to myself. On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 05:51:44PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > Up until recently, I haven't been doing any -exps myself, other than to > test the setup on pointyhat-west (on which I continue to find bugs in the > newer, generalized, codebase). Slightly untrue

Re: [HEADS UP] GNU make 3.82

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
Actually, not "at random", it was "the latest one that came across the threshhold." Sorry. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...

Re: [HEADS UP] GNU make 3.82

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 05:14:14PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: > Also, you suddenly getting involved probably didn't help, because it > just gave the appearance that you guys were trying to double-team > Doug. As I've stated elsewhere in this thread, I had an empty slot for an -exp and just grabbed o

Re: Fwd: prelminary analysis of the gmake3.82 -exp run

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
A greatly expanded version of my original message is now at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/GmakeTODO Note: the second run is currently paused while we are working on hardware. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: [HEADS UP] GNU make 3.82

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
I'm sorry that I did not have a chance to run the gmake -exp sooner. Up until recently, I haven't been doing any -exps myself, other than to test the setup on pointyhat-west (on which I continue to find bugs in the newer, generalized, codebase). I put the gmake -exp on there primarily as a way to

Re: Superfluous dependencies

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:35:23PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: > Is the underlying sourcecode available somewhere? The code is really gross :-( Right now I don't have the cycles to 'productize' it, sorry. Feel free to abuse that server in the meantime. mcl _

Re: Superfluous dependencies

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
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 running a live set of queries on the tree, so it's slow. mcl

Re: Superfluous dependencies

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
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 have people work on to fight the creeping dependencies

Re: [HEADS UP] GNU make 3.82

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 01:34:58PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > >Would you please offer examples of decisions that you feel that way about? > > Clearly it would be inappropriate for me to comment publicly on > things that were discussed in private, so no, I'm not going to do > that. You just discu

Re: [HEADS UP] GNU make 3.82

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:14:50PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > There are way too many things happening "in private" around here and > the only way to solve that problem is to open the doors. Would you please offer examples of decisions that you feel that way about? mcl ___

Re: Fwd: prelminary analysis of the gmake3.82 -exp run

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 06:38:12PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > FWIW, I expect a number of these will be trivial fixes where the > commands for a Makefile target are indented with spaces instead of > tabs. Yeah, it kind of looked that way on first glance. mcl _

Re: science/libctl marked as BROKEN, but does build on 8.2-STABLE amd64

2011-03-11 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:59:02AM +, Klaus T. Aehlig wrote: > Can anyone shed more light on why this port is marked BROKEN? In general you have to do a little bit of detective work. First stop: portsmon, to see where it is currently not building: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.p

Re: [HEADS UP] GNU make 3.82

2011-03-10 Thread Mark Linimon
I answered this question last night on IRC, aDe answered it in email: > What is the urgency in upgrading gmake that prevents "fix the broken > ports first" as an option to at least explore? Now that gmake is out, if the past is any indication, some project will quickly upgrade to it. We can wait

Fwd: prelminary analysis of the gmake3.82 -exp run

2011-03-10 Thread Mark Linimon
#x27;gmake' error classification has been added to the results; OTOH, many regressions will be classified as 'makefile'. It depends on how, exactly, the build failure occurred. mcl - Forwarded message from Mark Linimon - Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 20:49:28 -0600 From: Mark Linimon

Re: [HEADS UP] GNU make 3.82

2011-03-10 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mar 10, 2011, at 14:21 , Doug Barton wrote: > I admire your optimism, however experience tells us that once these > types of accomodations get into the tree, they stay there for a long > time. Here's what I have on my system: devel/autoconf devel/autoconf213 devel/automake devel/automa

Re: [HEADS UP] GNU make 3.82

2011-03-10 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 02:05:50PM -0600, Ade Lovett wrote: > Preliminary runs show ~50 ports that break with 3.82, some of them > unfortunately being dependencies for a reasonable number of others. For values of "reasonable" in the ~1100 range. mcl ___

Re: ports/137332: add caution messages to some adobe products

2011-02-15 Thread linimon
Synopsis: add caution messages to some adobe products Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports->hrs Responsible-Changed-By: linimon Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Feb 15 16:26:26 UTC 2011 Responsible-Changed-Why: Over to maintainer of print/acroread8 to add a vuxml entry. h

Re: ports/154660: [UPDATE] devel/bzr-git

2011-02-14 Thread linimon
Synopsis: [UPDATE] devel/bzr-git State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open State-Changed-By: linimon State-Changed-When: Mon Feb 14 20:51:14 UTC 2011 State-Changed-Why: Fix up damage from bogus submittal address. Class-Changed-From-To: change-request->maintainer-update Class-Changed-By: l

Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:12:05AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > What is it that this Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ships in those 7 DVDs? Please ask that on one of their mailing lists; it's out of scope for the two mailing lists you posted to. mcl ___ free

Re: PR153950, Repocopy complete but port not available yet

2011-02-04 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 07:07:40PM +, Helmut Schneider wrote: > The repocopy is complete but the port is not available yet. A few > poeple already emailed me so I just would like to know why it is not > available yet. Due to the upcoming release of 8.2? No, adding new ports is allowed during m

Re: TeamSpeak ports

2011-01-29 Thread Mark Linimon
$ cd audio/teamspeak_server $ make maintainer po...@freebsd.org The ports are unmaintained as of this commit: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/audio/teamspeak_server/Makefile?rev=1.14 If you are interested in working on them, see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/port

Re: ports/153625: [bsd.port.mk] Pass CPPFLAGS to MAKE_ENV and CONFIGURE_ENV

2011-01-28 Thread linimon
Synopsis: [bsd.port.mk] Pass CPPFLAGS to MAKE_ENV and CONFIGURE_ENV Responsible-Changed-From-To: ports->freebsd-ports-bugs Responsible-Changed-By: linimon Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Jan 28 21:20:14 UTC 2011 Responsible-Changed-Why: canonicalize assignment. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/qu

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked forbidden

2011-01-20 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, inclu

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked forbidden

2011-01-20 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, inclu

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2011-01-20 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 th

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2011-01-20 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 th

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked broken

2011-01-20 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 probl

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked broken

2011-01-20 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 probl

Re: www/chromium MAINTAINER, was Re: chromium producing constant hdd access

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:12:40PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > rene@ has ignored request to roll back. If rene@ resigns, > MAINTAINER would revert to po...@freebsd.org so others could fix > FreeBSD's current ports/www/chromium Because of the legal questions surrounding chromium, portmgr will

Re: Fwd: Current unassigned ports problem reports

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:38:22AM -, fgheor...@dracmail.net wrote: >I am the author of dracMail Webamil ( mail/dracmail ) and I would >like to take ownership of the port. I couldn't find in the Handbook >how ports are being assigned. It's currently unmaintained, so all you would

Re: ports/142476: bsd.gnat.mk - improved Ada support for the ports system

2011-01-16 Thread linimon
Synopsis: bsd.gnat.mk - improved Ada support for the ports system State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: linimon State-Changed-When: Sun Jan 16 15:54:49 UTC 2011 State-Changed-Why: Closed at request of John Marino: apparently, original submitter has abandoned this idea. h

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently marked forbidden

2011-01-07 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:29:42PM +0100, olli hauer wrote: > Ups, I thought freefall runs the gnats4 port. Nope. Never got updated. The problem is that we have people that have local copies of the repo, and we would need to get them to move all at the same time. (portsmon has a shim to do this

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently marked forbidden

2011-01-07 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:18:49PM +0100, Olli Hauer wrote: > I wonder about the old gants port. > Do we use parts of this port somewhere (OS/freefall...)? freefall, yep. It's our main GNATS installation. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2011-01-06 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 th

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked forbidden

2011-01-06 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, inclu

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2011-01-06 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 th

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked broken

2011-01-06 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 probl

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked broken

2011-01-06 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 probl

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked forbidden

2010-12-20 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, inclu

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2010-12-20 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 th

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2010-12-20 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 th

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked broken

2010-12-20 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 probl

Re: Updating Claws-Mail

2010-12-15 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 05:06:28PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > What's wrong with having it build on the pointyhat cluster for those > which build a package and to make it an option for those which build > the port? Surely we want the pointyhat package to be the same as the default package

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked forbidden

2010-12-07 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, inclu

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked broken

2010-12-07 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 probl

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2010-12-07 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 th

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2010-12-07 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 th

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked broken

2010-12-07 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 probl

Re: ports/152823: Request for new port: projectM

2010-12-06 Thread linimon
Synopsis: Request for new port: projectM State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended State-Changed-By: linimon State-Changed-When: Mon Dec 6 17:45:08 UTC 2010 State-Changed-Why: mark suspended awaiting patches. Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports->freebsd-ports-bugs Responsible-Chan

Re: CFR: patch to cleanup usage of SRC_BASE in various ports

2010-11-30 Thread Mark Linimon
ok, but I'm trying to fix something before I have time to do an -exp run ... mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: CFR: patch to cleanup usage of SRC_BASE in various ports

2010-11-30 Thread Mark Linimon
Patch incorporating these suggestions, along with some other edge cases I found, uploaded: http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/patches/diff.out.srcbase mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: CFR: patch to cleanup usage of SRC_BASE in various ports

2010-11-30 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 03:33:27AM -0600, Ade Lovett wrote: > Seems like there's an awful lot of duplication of: > > SRC_BASE?= /usr/src > > in those port Makefiles. > > What's wrong with adding the above, with a bit of documentation, to > bsd.port.mk ? Nothing at all, but this is a fix I'd lik

CFR: patch to cleanup usage of SRC_BASE in various ports

2010-11-29 Thread Mark Linimon
pointyhat, which has multiple src trees) this should fix edge conditions with 'make describe'. I would appreciate feedback on the following patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/patches/diff.out.srcbase Thanks. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@f

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:40:33AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > Yes, would be nice. I doubt it will happen soon. It's actually being looked at. As part of the extensive rework of the pointyhat scripts I did this summer, I attempted to factor out all the magic constants, including the definiti

Re: ambiguities in the Porter's Handbook (was: PR's not being picked up)

2010-11-28 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:00:08PM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote: > Here is a patch to take care of removing of "updating". I've committed a version of your two patches, plus some of my own changes, to try to remove the ambiguities in the text about "new ports" vs. "updating an existing port". Sever

Re: PR's not being picked up (Was Re: becoming a port committor)

2010-11-22 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 09:26:49PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: > E.g., why not send an email requesting resubmission in the proper > format? A lot of committers do try to do just that. There is no automated process, however. > Many of the of oldest unassigned but still-open PR's show no evidenc

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked forbidden

2010-11-20 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, inclu

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2010-11-20 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 th

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2010-11-20 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 th

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked broken

2010-11-20 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 probl

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked broken

2010-11-20 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 probl

Re: ports/152296: wrong message when trying to checkout using old repository path

2010-11-20 Thread linimon
Synopsis: wrong message when trying to checkout using old repository path Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports->freebsd-ports-bugs Responsible-Changed-By: linimon Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Nov 20 13:41:58 UTC 2010 Responsible-Changed-Why: Canonicalize assignment. h

Re: xorg-server 1.7.7

2010-11-14 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:35:29PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > Not sure if we've had any problems like that when upgrading between minor > versions of a single module, even such as xorg server. I don't remember, either. > That is, I am sure there will be a lot of testers if the port update is >

Re: xorg-server 1.7.7

2010-11-13 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:11:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > Oh, forgot a need to simply bump port revisions of all xorg driver ports. > That's perhaps a little bit laborious, but doesn't require any special skills. > Or did you have something else in mind? There's this whole "testing" thing :-

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked forbidden

2010-11-07 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, inclu

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked forbidden

2010-11-07 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, inclu

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2010-11-07 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 th

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2010-11-07 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 th

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked broken

2010-11-07 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 probl

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked broken

2010-11-07 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 probl

Re: ports/151747: request to enable emulators/wine on amd64

2010-10-28 Thread linimon
Synopsis: request to enable emulators/wine on amd64 Responsible-Changed-From-To: ports->freebsd-ports-bugs Responsible-Changed-By: linimon Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Oct 28 19:13:54 UTC 2010 Responsible-Changed-Why: Canonicalize assignment. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=151

Re: Request - new port

2010-10-24 Thread Mark Linimon
> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 16:34:11 +0200, Carsten Jensen wrote: > I know that it can take some time, but seeing on the list that some > new ports are still waiting to be added (goes back to 2007; > ports/117299), I'm just trying for mine not to be "forgotten". 117299 is suspended awating a response

FreeBSD ports which are currently marked forbidden

2010-10-20 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, inclu

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked forbidden

2010-10-20 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, inclu

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2010-10-20 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 th

FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2010-10-20 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 th

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