On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Long, Scott wrote: > Nate Lawson wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Scott Long wrote: > > > [...] > > > **Warning, rant** > > > The ports collection is one of the crown jewels of FreeBSD. > > > Unfortunately, even as more ports committers are added, more and > > > more ports break or become harder to build. On top of that, > > > pkg_add has become close to worthless now that the -r feature > > > is so fragile. > > > > I found a bug in libfetch a while back that causes pkg_add -r > > to seg fault > > on the 2nd package. This was also reported by numerous people. See > > thread: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I received NO replies but am not the maintainer of libfetch. So this > > message will serve as a warning -- if someone more familiar > > with the code > > does not fix it the "right" way, I will fix it and you may > > not like it. > > If you have a fix and the maintainer has not replied, then please do > commit your fix as soon as possible. The worst that could happen is > that the maintainer wakes up. > > Scott
If you check the email, it's not a simple fix and there are two widely divergent paths to take regarding who owns the cached connection. That's why I was waiting on the author. But since this has been around for too long and I think I know the right answer, I'll build a fix for the first path and commit it. Ping me next Friday if I haven't done it by then. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
