Re: Removal of Portmanager

2013-01-15 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 01:51:39AM +, RW wrote: Reports are sent to ports@ every 2 weeks. And I wonder how many people read carefully through all 478 entries. And your suggestion is ... ? mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Packages not updating on FTP

2013-01-30 Thread Mark Linimon
The build farm is still offline awaiting the code to be updated to a point where it will pass a security review. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: FreeBSD ports you maintain which are out of date

2013-03-09 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 08:33:06PM +1030, Gavin McDonald wrote: I'm happy to take maintainership of this one. Done, thanks. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default?

2013-05-26 Thread Mark Linimon
We should step back and define the problem. The problem IMHO is that we have optimized for users who wish to save the maximum space on their systems, at the expense of users who want to install and upgrade ports with the minimum fuss. IMHO we should do the opposite. I think the number of users

Re: gccmakedep fix - 20130619

2013-06-18 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:51:42AM +0200, Oliver Pinter wrote: 3) Is not it better to submit via PR (GNATS) rather than a mailing list? That's what PRs are for... Mail are faster than PR-s. If we all go down that route, it means less and less people will try to read all the traffic on

Re: [HEADS UP] switch default xorg version in 9.1 and later

2013-06-19 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 04:03:36AM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote: Now I am a bit confused, should it be x...@freebsd.org or freebsd-...@freebsd.org, or is one an alias for the other? They are aliases. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [HEADSUP] New mailing pkg-fallout

2013-07-18 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:04:52AM +0200, Erwin Lansing wrote: You bet it is! Know you know what portmgr has been spending its time on for all those years and why we keep sining the same old song about quality control and pre-commit (and not post-commit) testing ITYM singing :-) In any

Re: Status of portsmon

2013-08-04 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 09:14:32PM +0200, Marcin Wiśnicki wrote: But didn't it use to show last successful builds too ? Now it just says None which is not very helpful. No, it doesn't have that information, sorry. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

[HEADSUP] upcoming removal of remaining 4.X bits from bsd.port.mk

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Linimon
Since the time that the RELEASE_4_EOL tag was applied to the Ports Collection, much of the legacy support for 4.X has been removed from individual ports (e.g., special-case code for old header layouts, marking ports BROKEN, and removing the checks for the antique perl in base). At this point

Re: exim doesn't build on 4.9 (minor error)

2007-03-05 Thread Mark Linimon
This is probably due to some piece of code that is special-case for 4.X being removed. More is on the way (see my headsup from ~12 hours ago). mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To

Re: exim doesn't build on 4.9 (minor error)

2007-03-05 Thread Mark Linimon
Hmm, I may have spoken too quickly, there is a report of this same problem on 6.2. Never mind my noise. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Why are package builds failing for editors/abiword-plugins?

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:53:03PM -0800, Eric P. Scott wrote: i386 and amd64 builds are failing as though something were forcing USE_AUTOTOOLS=libtool:15 and bypassing the included libtool. What's the difference? There was a checkin that indeed did just that, to try to work around

[REMINDER] how to get the best use out of GNATS

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Linimon
, it is almost certainly either kern or bin (unless you think it is particular to a processor or motherboard, in which case it is i386/amd64/etc.). Thanks. Mark Linimon, for the bugbusting team *http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html

Re: Openssh

2007-03-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:51:08PM -0400, Alfredo Perez wrote: Do I need to be the maintainer of Openssh to submit a PR with a diff? No. We will forward your PR to the maintainer. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Openssh

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:15:37PM -0400, Alfredo Perez wrote: That is the thing, the port does not have a maintainer Well, it will stay in the queue until a ports committer takes an interest in it. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [www/p5-libapreq2] Broken ?

2007-03-23 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 03:32:33PM +0100, Alexandre Brooks wrote: I'm currently trying to install www/rt36 port, with apache22 and mod_perl2, but this requires me to build the perl5 interface to libapreq2 (www/p5-libapreq2). Only problem, it is broken. You should mail the maintainer ([EMAIL

Re: optional dependencies

2007-03-27 Thread Mark Linimon
Until someone implements some kind of capabilities system, we're stuck doing a bunch of logic in Makefiles. One problem no one has come up with a good solution for is mixing packages (with standard prerequisites) with installed ports (with custom prerequisites). mcl

[HEADSUP] please avoid using send-pr for the moment

2007-04-16 Thread Mark Linimon
gotten a bounce message; the messages are in the queue waiting to be hand-processed. I'll send an all-clear when the situation is resolved. Thanks for your patience. Mark Linimon for bugmeister@ ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: [HEADSUP] please avoid using send-pr for the moment

2007-04-16 Thread Mark Linimon
It's now clear to send PRs again. It will take a little while to clear out the backlog. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apology for multiple PR (112106, 112107, 112108) submissions...

2007-04-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:35:16AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: I then queried the database to see if the PR was submitted, but nothing turned up. It takes 5-10 minutes for the automated processes all to run to process the latest PRs before they will show up on the web page. mcl

Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:36:03PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: Does this freeze apply to the whole ports tree, or only (relatively directly) affected parts of the tree? The latter is basically most of the tree :-) mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: net/sixxs-heartbeatd is now obsolete?

2007-05-05 Thread Mark Linimon
So, is it time to mark it as obsolete and pull it from ports? Yep, sounds like. Just send-pr it and it will get assigned to the maintainer (or this list if it's maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Question about fields in INDEX files

2007-05-06 Thread Mark Linimon
The output from each port's make describe is documented at the describe target in: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk This is changed to a different format (a historical bug, too late to fix now because of POLA) via make index from ports/Makefile by the following script

Re: games/sauerbraten

2007-05-08 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:49:02AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Submit a PR and request a maintainer timeout. This will take a long time, but it's the only way. long time = 2 weeks mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: games/sauerbraten

2007-05-08 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:23:43AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: The last time I requested a maintainer time out it was something like two months. I have been much more active in the last few months on enforcing the maintainer-timeouts. If you are having problems, please email portmgr@ directly.

Re: games/sauerbraten

2007-05-09 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:58:43AM -0500, Sam Stein wrote: I've already submitted a pr with the update; before I read about the maintainer timeout; should I just wait it out a while, and if nothing happens, request one? Or do it right away? Just wait it out for a while. At the moment, we're

Re: php 5.2.2

2007-05-09 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:48:30AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest release of PHP is out (as at May 3) and I'm just wondering if there's a schedule for updating the port - this release corrects some not insignificant security vulnerabilities. We are in an unusual ports freeze to do

Re: FreeBSD Port: php5-session-5.2.1_3

2007-05-10 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:00:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know that PHP 5.2.1 has a Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.2 and PHP 4.4.7 as reported on www.php.net? When will be available the PHP 5.2.2 in the ports? Please go read the archives of this mailing list over

Re: Ports tree : Xorg-7.2 release freeze, ETA?

2007-05-19 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 01:51:02PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Wouldn't it be sufficient to force major component testers (in this case Xorg 7.2) to use periodic snapshots of the ports tree (possibly CVS branching), while allowing continued development in the ports tree? In this particular

Re: portmaster version of UPDATING:20070519 users of x11/xorg ?

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:15:44AM +0200, Hans Lambermont wrote: Do you happen to have a portmaster version of UPDATING:20070519 users of x11/xorg ? I think he may have gone to sleep already, so I'll step in and answer for him that he is working on it and may have a patch shortly. mcl

Re: tinderbox and bad system call

2007-05-22 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:20:43PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Then you need to run a kernel that corresponds to the newest userland the tinderbox wants to run - or from a different perspective, configure the tinderbox to only run userlands as old as or older than your kernel. Yes,

Re: More speed increases for make-ing ports

2007-05-23 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 05:34:32PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: A seemingly better way may be to make these system vars available in make by default. Doesn't help anyone who runs -RELEASE, so a non-starter. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: ports/111224: [PATCH] security/pam_per_user conflicts with security/courier-authlib

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Linimon
Synopsis: [PATCH] security/pam_per_user conflicts with security/courier-authlib Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports-freebsd-ports-bugs Responsible-Changed-By: linimon Responsible-Changed-When: Thu May 24 11:15:30 UTC 2007 Responsible-Changed-Why: Fix assignment.

Re: FreeBSD Port: p5-Math-BigInt-1.83

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:21:09AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: I'm having the same issue. Investigating a little reveals the size as listed in distinfo as 190172 and the size of the downloaded tarball as ~7200. Generally mismatches like this are returning HTML pages instead of the desired

Re: email addresses and spam

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:02:39PM -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: All right, who released my email address to spammers? The mailing lists are public and mirrored all over the world. It's too late for that address, sorry. mcl ___

HEADSUP: default for ports/Makefile 'make update' is changing

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Linimon
If you use 'make update', the default method is going to become portsnap. Currently, if you do not define one of the Makevars PORTSNAP_UPDATE, SUP_UPDATE, or CVS_UPDATE first, the code just complains at you and does nothing. This is one less thing that has to be set by default by an

Re: Looking for speed increases in make index

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:15:28AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: To gain some performance, a first idea would be to simplify bsd.ports.mk. I am convinced that a substantial part of the 4000 lines are historical crap which serve no useful purpose. 11272 of LOC in bsd.*.mk, but who's counting.

Re: xorg modularity

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:16:11AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: It has been discussed on IRC, and I'm pretty sure that flz@ has been thinking about it during his sweat-shop-job. My opinion is: let's do the upgrade to 7.2 and the new framework first, then see what can be done about OPTIONizing

removing stale ports [was: Re: make index failed]

2007-06-07 Thread Mark Linimon
I can't build index after recent update of ports via portsnap: wait..astk-client-1.5.0.1_2: /usr/ports/shells/bash2 non-existent -- dependency list incomplete As a reminder to committers, when removing stale ports, you also have to check the _optional_ dependencies in port Makefiles (yes,

Re: FreeBSD%20Port:%20wzdftpd-0.8.1_1

2007-06-07 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:16:38PM +0200, Daniel Stefan Haischt wrote: attached you will find an modified wzdftpd port. Included are just changed files. fwiw, if you're going to Cc: to the list, you may as well just file it as a PR and then it will be auto-assigned to novel. Postings to the

Re: FreeBSD ports: 1 unfetchable distfile: emulators/klh10

2007-06-08 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 07:48:44AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: So you better file a PR to step back from maintainership, so that volunteers don't have to wait for a time out. Already taken care of. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Samba 3.0.25a still broken

2007-06-16 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 07:50:14AM -0500, Jack Stone wrote: You could simply edit the Makefile in the samba port and reset the version shown at the top to the old version. Then, delete distinfo Then 'make makesum' Then 'make install clean' If the old port still remains in your

Re: How to get a list of all kernel modules

2007-06-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 12:15:16AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: I want a list of all the ports in /usr/ports that install kernel modules. IIRC they're all in misc/. Let me see if I can come up with a quick list. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: How to get a list of all kernel modules

2007-06-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 12:42:01AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: I'd kinda hoped there was a pseudo category that I could key off of. Kinda sounds like there should be. Here's my list so far: audio/aureal-kmod audio/emu10kx comms/hcfmdm comms/ixj comms/ltmdm comms/uticom comms/vpb-driver

Re: temporally out of action

2007-06-19 Thread Mark Linimon
ok, good luck on getting caught up. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PR problem -file handling.. long files

2007-06-28 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 06:38:24AM -0700, David Southwell wrote: There is a difficulty when posting PR's when a large debug file is needed to be posted to the PR as an attachment. Do you mean, via the web form or via send-pr(1)? The latter has a limit of 500k, via the FreeBSD.org email

Re: ChartDirector

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 12:34:20PM +0200, Tim Rijavec wrote: can you add this package for ChartDirector for php to FreeBSD ports? that can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/master-index.html Please use send-pr to submit this so that it won't just get lost in the mailing list traffic.

recent updates to portsmon.freebsd.org

2007-07-19 Thread Mark Linimon
I have just updated portsmon to the most recent development code. Most of this code has to do with the ability to create dependency graphs of failed or broken ports, and is not yet totally automated; thus, it is not (yet) visible to users. Other code has to do with internal schema changes. The

Re: Proposal for another category in INDEX: common_deps

2007-07-20 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:11:27PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: The only relevant info for determining what to install or build previously is RUN_DEPENDS and BUILD_DEPENDS. Everything else is garbage. The pointyhat error logs would tend to indicate that this isn't correct. mcl

Re: Proposal for another category in INDEX: common_deps

2007-07-20 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 12:40:02PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the INDEX files -- so many that I think that items common to both build_deps and run_deps should be isolated and put into a new category called 'common_deps': How will this benefit us? Doug Reduce amount of processed

Re: Overly restrictive checks in the make process

2007-07-20 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:58:55AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Why? Is there a legitimate reason why the fetch process refuses to download this? The intention of the logic is to warn a user, as soon as possible, that they are spending time on something that will wind up being IGNOREd if it is

Re: Overly restrictive checks in the make process

2007-07-20 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:07:49PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Even better would be for make to realize that it's only doing the fetching, and do it anyway. That still doesn't help with the problem of a user who starts a 10MB download that won't work on his architecture or OS release. The code is

Re: What to do when the person who takes responsibility for a PR goes non-responsive?

2007-07-21 Thread Mark Linimon
I assume that you've already emailed the person? If so, sending email to portmgr@ is the right way to go. We'll attempt to find out if the person is busy/on vacation/overloaded/etc. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Ports depending on FORBIDDEN ports

2007-07-22 Thread Mark Linimon
I'm actually doing a slight superset by looking at dependent ports of (ignore/broken/forbidden/failed) ports, now that I have updated the graph and can see it better. It sounds like people are already working on the misc/compat3x dependents. Most of these ports are antiques. IMHO sysutils/eject

Re: x11-themes/kde-icons-icosx - PLEASE DON'T DELETE

2007-07-24 Thread Mark Linimon
In general the way we want to assign maintainership is in conjunction with a port update/fix. Please submit anything that you come up with via GNATS. Even if in the meantime the port gets deleted, it can easily be brought back from the Attic. Thanks for volunteering to help. mcl

Re: Regarding upgrading nsc ports

2007-07-27 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 12:39:51PM +0530, Alagarsamy A wrote: can you please update it to latest version 0.80 (http://nsc-gothix.sourceforge.net/) ? ports@ is the default maintainer. No update will happen until someone (you?) submits a PR for it. mcl

Re: emacs 22 and info files

2007-08-01 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:17:24PM +0200, Mark Evenson wrote: Which I would do but the [FreeBSD Bugs database][1] seems to not be returning any matches to queries Seems to be working fine for me now. However, I've seen a 'no PRs found' page to be displayed sometimes, possibly due to some

Re: Out of order line in /usr/ports/MOVED

2007-08-05 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 06:01:48PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: The following line was placed first in the file, instead of in chronological order. Is there a reason that it needs to be first? This is a bug. Fixed. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

new reports added to portsmon

2007-08-06 Thread Mark Linimon
These reports deal with package failures, adding together all packages that are intentionally not made, packages that fail, and all the packages that depend on them. Initially I generated these as graphs via GraphViz. However, the resulting images are so large that they take minutes to display

Re: Popularity contest

2007-09-01 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:50:36AM +0200, Nils Vogels wrote: Since a little while, Debian has been using a popularity contest, that sends anonymous usage details of various packages that Debian users have installed. See sysutils/bsdstats. It apparently has not yet been extended to

[HEADSUP] bsd.perl.mk import coming soon

2007-09-07 Thread Mark Linimon
The refactoring that gabor has done to recreate bsd.perl.mk will be imported soon, along with the many ports that it simplifies. Due to the size of the patch, I expect there to be collisions that I will have to adjust as I go, so expect the tree to be broken briefly while I work through the

[headsup] latest changes to bsd.perl.mk, and regressions

2007-09-13 Thread Mark Linimon
This should fix the remaining perl-related problems that people were seeing, each related to ports that conditionally included perl. The only remaining regressions that I can't yet explain are the following: */fpc-* fail to compile due some kind of flag failure. (They work on my 6.2

Re: [HEADSUP] problems with the autoconf upgrade

2007-10-06 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:40:05PM +0200, Max Laier wrote: On Sunday 30 September 2007, Mark Linimon wrote: Despite the fact that this was tested on the cluster, this upgrade has failed. Please hold off upgrading your ports tree until we can figure out what the problem is. Thanks. Did

[HEADSUP] portsmon default ports environment switched to i386-7

2007-10-11 Thread Mark Linimon
(For those who are not familiar with the FreeBSD Ports Monitoring System, or portsmon, that I wrote and maintain, you'll find more information at portsmon.freebsd.org.) To get ready for the 7.0 release, I've switched its model of the default ports build environment from i386-6 to i386-7. This

[HEADSUP] last run of GNATS weekly reports was broken

2007-10-15 Thread Mark Linimon
When we upgraded the machine that hosts these reports, we missed some files, and the reports came out null. I am currently working on testing the corrected script. While I'm working on it, I'm going to make a few tweaks. Let me know if you see anything odd in the results. mcl

Re: py-punjab

2006-07-04 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:27:55PM -0300, Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: Port py-punjab (ports/net-im/py-punjab) has been removid from ports collection? cvsweb does not report it having been in the Ports Collection, nor is there an entry in MOVED. There is a pending PR to create one, however:

Re: Question about ports builds

2006-07-06 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:58:54PM +0300, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote: Actually support for 4.x is gone already. We're only required to mark the ports broken or incorporate patches from the users. Of curse, we try to fix broken ports on 4-STABLE but that battle is going to be lost. The latest

Re: fetching linux (was: Re: Question about ports builds)

2006-07-06 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:45:02AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: I noticed a few days ago that the first site at FEDORA_CORE_SITES (limestone.uoregon.edu) is acting not reliable. Your logs says the same (most distributions were taken from the next site -- mirrors.kernel.org). I'd rather delete

Re: Ports support for RELENG_4 (Was: Re: Question about ports builds)

2006-07-07 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:55:47PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: I think you're right about that, and my preferred method of operation for the ports that I maintain has been to try and test on RELENG_4 whenever possible, but not let not testing stop me from updating a port that works on 7-current

Re: last build at pointyhat and linux-gtk errors

2006-07-07 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:02:20AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: I searched error messages at the last build at pointyhat. Strange enough but the build for x11-toolkits/linux-gtk used rather old ports tree. Current version is 1.2.10_3 (I committed a patch at Tue Jun 27 12:35:33 2006 UTC). The

Re: Ports support for RELENG_4 (Was: Re: Question about ports builds)

2006-07-07 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:55:47PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: The way you break those numbers down is interesting. On i386 there are 206 errors on -4, 277 on -5, 119 on -6, and 151 on -7. The key fact that I missed in my first reply to this is that the -5 run was killed because there was some

Re: graphics/linux-dri on 4.11

2006-07-07 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 12:18:15PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: I guess this has been completely looked over since BSD tar got very clever about it. The worry is.. isn't 4.x totally obsolete, unsupported now, and therefore not worth coding that fix for? :D The policy is that we no longer require

Re: graphics/linux-dri on 4.11

2006-07-07 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:33:55PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: Well this is a kind of internal-to-ports thing that needs a small change, not really a fix linux-dri thing. It could happen with plenty of packages, so who deals with that? There is no individual who's on the hook for that, exactly.

Re: graphics/linux-dri on 4.11

2006-07-07 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:49:51PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: Yeah wouldn't a solution be to have bsdtar have a PORT_REPLACES_BASE kind of thing? Or a use.tar like use.perl? Well, it would be, if we were going to continue to support base systems without bsdtar already in them :-) mcl

Re: portsdb -Uu broken on AMD64 system

2006-07-21 Thread Mark Linimon
This has already been fixed. Please re-cvsup and try again. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: portinstall breaks with -m -j 4

2006-07-22 Thread Mark Linimon
BTW, I apologize for this is not at all a portupgrade issue, but an issue of the ports system. It is an issue with individual ports -- actually not the port (e.g. Makefile framework, pkg-*) but the individual applications (IIUC). Well, at least the ports system itself should not be broken

[HEADSUP] last call for ports maintainers with maintainer-timeouts

2006-08-11 Thread Mark Linimon
this is last call; please mail to me off-list if you are one of these folks and wish to keep your ports, or you otherwise know that these folks are still active. Thanks. Mark Linimon for [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: maintainer timeout

2006-08-13 Thread Mark Linimon
All I see is the following update with the text update to version 9.3.7, approved by: maintainer timeout by danfe (there were no PRs with libticables in the Synopsis): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/comms/libticables/Makefile?rev=1.16content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup danfe, any more

Re: ports tree tagging again

2006-08-16 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:28:36PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: I think someone (kuriyama?) was in fact already doing this, so getting the project started would not involve much work. Yes, that was already set up, but does not appear to be active. I don't know if the link was supposed to be

Re: ports tree tagging again

2006-08-18 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 04:21:38PM +0400, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote: There are severe logistical problems: Ports are currently expected to build for at least 3 different src branches, with between 2 and 6 different architectures in each. Multiply this by over 15,000 ports and that process

[headsup] portsmon upgrade in progress

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Linimon
Some of the work that I'm currently doing to add the status of packages to the portsmon reports has meant that I needed to push out some earlier changes. For the first time, this has involved a Flag Day involving one of the attribute names in the database. In _theory_ this should not affect

Re: problem generating INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:33:47AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: You get evidence supporting the hypothesis I'm an idiot. Thanks. No problem, there are plenty of ways to shoot your feet off, I've spent the last few decades iterating over them. mcl

[HEADSUP] new portmgr recommendation about adding new ports

2006-09-19 Thread Mark Linimon
Here is the result of a discussion amongst the portmgr members during the past few weeks, in response to the large number of new ports added to the Ports Collection in the last few months. - Recently we've seen evidence of an

Re: Help to maintain port Websieve 0.63a

2006-09-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:01:20AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: How can I help to do this? How it the corresponding person (the maintainer is ports@). [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the string used to indicate that a port is not maintained by anyone; so until someone steps up and contributes (e.g. by

Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/ruby-mysql Makefile

2006-09-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:27:21PM +0900, Akinori MUSHA wrote: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-7-latest/ruby18-mysql-2.7.1.log Note: Some of those logs may not exist depending on the timing. The previous errorlogs are always archived. If you have access to pointyhat, you can find

Re: Syncing up with the package build cluster

2006-09-23 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:21:15PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Is there an easy way to find when the ports tree was checked out for a given package run? I have now added a link to the cvsdone file which already existed, to the page at http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/packagestats.html

Re: Port Bloat

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 10:53:32PM -0700, Peter Thoenen wrote: B) In line with A, has anybody thought about just marking ALL [EMAIL PROTECTED] as scheduled for deletion on X date. It turns out that a few of them are key pieces of infrastructure. Perhaps we can generate a list of ports that we

Re: compat3x

2006-10-18 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:06:10PM -0600, Charlie Sorsby wrote: What does this mean and why is it so? Wednesday, 18 Oct, 2006 -- 12:59:41 MDT === compat3x-i386-4.4.20020925 is forbidden: FreeBSD-SA-03:05.xdr, FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath - not fixed / no lib available. It means there is no

Re: ports/databases/postgresql81-server

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:48:27PM -0600, Craig Boston wrote: Is fixing broken ports eligible for commiting during the freeze? Yes, with portmgr approval, of course. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ports/databases/postgresql81-server

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 06:42:45PM -0600, Craig Boston wrote: Great, I'll file a PR later tonight unless somebody beats me to it. Well, we just lifted the freeze, so it's too late for 6.2, but it can go into the ports tree anyways. mcl ___

Re: How to make minor changes

2006-10-31 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:04:34PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: If I submit PRs for this, do I have to set PORTREVISION to 1? Or does it matter for such a minor change? Since it doesn't affect the package (install/deinstall), PORTREVISION should not be bumped. mcl

Re: ports/105220: maintainer update: audio/kid3

2006-11-06 Thread Mark Linimon
Synopsis: maintainer update: audio/kid3 Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports-freebsd-ports-bugs Responsible-Changed-By: linimon Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Nov 6 19:49:36 UTC 2006 Responsible-Changed-Why: Canonicalize assignment. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=105220

Re: Undefined reference to 'llrint' when portinstalling multimedia/mplayer

2006-11-30 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:52:49AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Something like this should do just fine: .if ${OSVERSION} 504000 BROKEN= Requires FreeBSD 5.4 or later, for llrint(3) .endif s/BROKEN/IGNORE/. BROKEN=doesn't currently work. IGNORE=known not to work now, nor

Re: Index build fails at audio/gstreamer-plugins-esound

2006-12-03 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:47:58PM -0500, John Abrams wrote: I'm trying to make index on a FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE box, and for some time I keep getting this error (I have cvsupped several times): You are seeing a side-effect from most of the ports maintainers and committers having moved to 6.X,

Re: failure of policy

2006-12-11 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 01:23:54PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: Reading this PR more closely it seems I was not even notified, as Oleg Gawriloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] is described as the maintainer and is the one responding to maintainer queries, which he is not. What isn't detected well is if

Re: failure of policy

2006-12-11 Thread Mark Linimon
But you're right, this is not the way that it is supposed to work. Please accept my apologies, and we'll look at the code. Well, this looks to have been a combination of two human errors (on that particular PR), which the code really doesn't know how to deal with. But after looking at it, I'm

Re: How to construct this port?

2006-12-28 Thread Mark Linimon
I'll echo pav here. For people that don't want to answer questions or deal with reminder-email from portmgr, the best thing to do is turn the port over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and just submit PRs for updates. That's the difference, in my view, between being a 'submitter' and being a 'maintainer'.

Re: Problems with PR system?

2007-01-03 Thread Mark Linimon
There seems to have been a temporary problem with the email system either involving spasassassin or NFS. The message is queued and I will rescue it tomorrow; I am simply too tired tonight. I will note, again, that these problems should always be forwarded to bugmeister@ rather than the public

Re: Regarding dns/djbdns

2007-01-08 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:28:54AM +0200, Cristian KLEIN wrote: I have contacted this e-mail address as this is what make maintainer gave me for dns/djbdns. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the address that unmaintained ports are assigned to, so you may or may not get a response. If you wish, you can file

status of FreeBSD packages [was: Re: pkgupgrade]

2007-01-31 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:19:33PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote: In my experience the Debian system is far more reliable than the FreeBSD one, but such reliability will never be accessible to FreeBSD as long as *all* ports are not available as packages. I have also been working on the 'packages

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