Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-06 Thread Dominic Fandrey
RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:55:52 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot find any policy on interactive ports in the Porters' Handbook. Maybe there aught to be one. Setting BATCH

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-05 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:35:29 +0100 Jesper Louis Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure it would solve the particular problem, but one could take a look at how NetBSDs pkgsrc build system copes with licenses in general: For each

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-05 Thread Wesley Shields
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:22:28PM +0100, Nikola Le??i?? wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:35:29 +0100 Jesper Louis Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure it would solve the particular problem, but one could take a look at how

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-05 Thread Wesley Shields
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:30:44AM -0500, Wesley Shields wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:22:28PM +0100, Nikola Le??i?? wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:35:29 +0100 Jesper Louis Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure it

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-05 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:37:38 -0500 Wesley Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just informed that a port which is gpl2 _only_ can not be built into a package if it depends on a port which is gpl3. However, IANAL and have not done any

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:22:28PM +0100, Nikola Lečić wrote: (BTW, are/were there ideas of implementing something similar in Ports Collection?) Yes, I think we are at the point of needing to implement this. I hope we can use what pkgsrc has (the concepts if not the code); it sounds as though

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-04 Thread pjd
options resolved at the start of portupgrade (so they are all done in one go) and then followed by the compilation and downloads, that way nothing gets canceled or stalled unless there is a genuine problem -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/interactive-ports---the-plague

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-04 Thread Jesper Louis Andersen
I am not sure it would solve the particular problem, but one could take a look at how NetBSDs pkgsrc build system copes with licenses in general: For each license type, there is a knob. The knob could normally be interactive, yielding the exact same behaviour as now. But if an appropriate

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:35:29PM +0100, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote: For each license type, there is a knob. The knob could normally be interactive, yielding the exact same behaviour as now. But if an appropriate ACCEPT_LICENSE_FOO=Yes is found in make.conf, then the user has read and accepted

interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Dominic Fandrey
I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with them without trouble by setting BATCH, using portmaster or portconfig-recursive from bsdadminscripts. But I find ports like ghostscript-gpl that open an ncurses dialogue between configure and build stage very annoying. They

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with them without trouble by setting BATCH, using portmaster or portconfig-recursive from bsdadminscripts. But I find ports like ghostscript-gpl that

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Naram Qashat
RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with them without trouble by setting BATCH, using portmaster or portconfig-recursive from bsdadminscripts. But I find ports like ghostscript-gpl

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:27:31 -0500 Naram Qashat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with them without trouble by setting BATCH, using portmaster or

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Wesley Shields
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:04:57PM +, RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:27:31 -0500 Naram Qashat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread pjd
the JDK ports stop and demand I manually download the files, which is even more irritating -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/interactive-ports---the-plague-tp15800371p15808613.html Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:27:50 -0500 Wesley Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:04:57PM +, RW wrote: IIRC these ports refuse to fetch the distfiles, and ask you to fetch them manually from the websites, where you have to agree to the terms, they aren't actually

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Dominic Fandrey
RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with them without trouble by setting BATCH, using portmaster or portconfig-recursive from bsdadminscripts. But I find ports like ghostscript-gpl

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Wesley Shields
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:36:57PM +, RW wrote: On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:27:50 -0500 Wesley Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:04:57PM +, RW wrote: IIRC these ports refuse to fetch the distfiles, and ask you to fetch them manually from the websites,

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:12:37AM -0800, pjd wrote: With me the JDK ports stop and demand I manually download the files, which is even more irritating Given Sun's licensing requirements, what is your suggestion? mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wesley Shields wrote: I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. I'll take that as a bug report :-) Though I'm not sure which way it should default, on BATCH. And does BATCH apply to package install as well?

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Wesley Shields
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:01:00PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wesley Shields wrote: I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. I'll take that as a bug report :-) I didn't intend for that to be a bug report. :) Though

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Philipp Ost
Wesley Shields wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:04:57PM +, RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:27:31 -0500 Naram Qashat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Vivek Khera wrote: On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wesley Shields wrote: I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. I'll take that as a bug report :-) Though I'm not sure which way it should default, on BATCH. And does BATCH apply to package install as

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 03 March 2008, Mark Linimon said: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:12:37AM -0800, pjd wrote: With me the JDK ports stop and demand I manually download the files, which is even more irritating Given Sun's licensing requirements, what is your suggestion? --

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 03 March 2008, Beech Rintoul said: On Monday 03 March 2008, Mark Linimon said: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:12:37AM -0800, pjd wrote: With me the JDK ports stop and demand I manually download the files, which is even more irritating Given Sun's licensing requirements, what is

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:33:00 -0500 Wesley Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:01:00PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wesley Shields wrote: I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. I'll take

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:01:00 -0500 Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wesley Shields wrote: I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. I'll take that as a bug report :-) Though I'm not sure which way it should

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:55:52 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot find any policy on interactive ports in the Porters' Handbook. Maybe there aught to be one. Setting BATCH is

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Dominic Fandrey
RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:55:52 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot find any policy on interactive ports in the Porters' Handbook. Maybe there aught to be one. Setting BATCH