On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Hasso Tepper <[email protected]> wrote: > Pkgsrc 2008Q4 will be branched/released any minute now, but the state of > it in DragonFly is quite sad. > > Most of gnome and a lot of other packages fail to build on DragonFly 2.0 > due to brokeness of hal and some other stuff on it. I failed to find a > time to care about 2.0 (backporting changes etc). > > A lot of 2008Q4 is broken with master as well. With brought in reentrant > user/group database access functions (getpwnam_r etc) too much stuff was > broken (starting from core X) and because it was incomplete as well, I > committed the hack to make these unusable for now. But the other change - > bringing in bind's resolver - broke a lot of stuff as well due to > introducing reentrant functions (gethostbyname_r etc). This includes > whole Mozilla family for example. > > We obviously have to do something, but what? We have a bunch of options > from just declaring "we don't care, use HEAD and stuff when it'll be > fixed" to reverting changes in our master. > > Whatever your proposal is, don't look at me to do anything ;). I'll _try_
I have no proposal :P I just want to thank you for all of your efforts on dragonfly and pkgsrc :) Best Regards, sephe -- Live Free or Die
