FreeBSD ports which are currently marked forbidden

2009-08-06 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 marked forbidden

2009-08-06 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 ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2009-08-06 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 unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2009-08-06 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

2009-08-06 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

2009-08-06 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

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 08:17:20AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On 06 August 2009 pm 19:10:07 Lars Eighner wrote: > > > > Would these things build if I deleted all 1619 installed > > packages and started from scratch, or are the circular gotchas > > built-in with python and qt? > > do

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 06 August 2009 19:29:24 Lars Eighner wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Thursday 06 August 2009 17:38:40 Lars Eighner wrote: > >> It's hard to resist the sales pitch (really, USB will work again on > >> 8.0, we promise! [but we are going to trash your modem driver]) --

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
Lars Eighner wrote: > Believe me, if I can get back to my printer, camera, and mp3 player > all working (which last occurred about 6.2 or so) I'll never upgrade > again. Of course it is kind of lonely when your release is orphaned, > which happens in the blink of an eye, but if the kernel support

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 07 August 2009 am 11:29:24 Lars Eighner wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Thursday 06 August 2009 17:38:40 Lars Eighner wrote: > > Done, months ago with all the core dump stuff. Still open. > Umass still crashes the system if I plug the camera or the mp3 > player in. (

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 17:38:40 Lars Eighner wrote: It's hard to resist the sales pitch (really, USB will work again on 8.0, we promise! [but we are going to trash your modem driver]) --- sooner or later one has to wise up. If you actually know how re

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 06 August 2009 17:38:40 Lars Eighner wrote: > It's hard to resist the sales pitch (really, USB will work again on > 8.0, we promise! [but we are going to trash your modem driver]) --- > sooner or later one has to wise up. If you actually know how responsive in particular hps@ is at pe

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 07 August 2009 am 10:14:25 b. f. wrote: > On 8/7/09, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On 07 August 2009 am 08:44:44 b. f. wrote: > >> Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> >If this would be synchronised with the main FreeBSD > >> > releases, it would have a minor effect on users. > >> > >> But please don

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 07 August 2009 am 09:29:59 Lars Eighner wrote: > On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On 06 August 2009 pm 19:10:07 Lars Eighner wrote: > > > > do not even ask this question if you have a working system. > > > > I realised this problem by luck when I tried to update a > > single p

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread b. f.
On 8/7/09, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On 07 August 2009 am 08:44:44 b. f. wrote: >> Erich Dollansky wrote: >> >I think that you hit the weakest point of FreeBSD. When a >> > version number of a base port changes, hundreds or even >> > thousands of ports have to be recompiled. It is basically

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, b. f. wrote: If this would be synchronised with the main FreeBSD releases, it would have a minor effect on users. No one is _forcing_ you to update anything, or even to use ports at all. Believe me, if I can get back to my printer, camera, and mp3 player all working (whic

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On 06 August 2009 pm 19:10:07 Lars Eighner wrote: Would these things build if I deleted all 1619 installed packages and started from scratch, or are the circular gotchas built-in with python and qt? do not even ask this question if you have a w

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 07 August 2009 am 08:44:44 b. f. wrote: > Erich Dollansky wrote: > >I think that you hit the weakest point of FreeBSD. When a > > version number of a base port changes, hundreds or even > > thousands of ports have to be recompiled. It is basically the > > same effect as when the major versi

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread b. f.
Erich Dollansky wrote: >I think that you hit the weakest point of FreeBSD. When a version >number of a base port changes, hundreds or even thousands of >ports have to be recompiled. It is basically the same effect as >when the major version number of FreeBSD changes. The same is true of almost any

Ideas upon the port infrastructure. [MOVED] was "ports/*/jpeg "Thanks a lot guys""

2009-08-06 Thread Jason J. Hellenthal
That is a very nice idea, I am sure that with a little tweaking it would turn out just fine. Another nice aspect or solve for this would be getting something going like symbol versioning in the libs by means of the developer that supports 2 or so version's prior to the current lib in order to e

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 06 August 2009 pm 19:10:07 Lars Eighner wrote: > > Would these things build if I deleted all 1619 installed > packages and started from scratch, or are the circular gotchas > built-in with python and qt? do not even ask this question if you have a working system. I realised this problem b

Re: ports/*/jpeg "Thanks a lot guys"

2009-08-06 Thread Buganini
The meaning of NODE_VERSION and the flag is to describe dependencies more detailed, to make it possible to do automated upgrade, instead of bump PORTREVISION by man. An important thing, NODE_VERSION and the flag could be backward compatible, for port/package don't have NODE_VERSION, it's just 0. t

Re: ports/*/jpeg "Thanks a lot guys"

2009-08-06 Thread Jason J. Hellenthal
I believe unless I misunderstand what you are meaning, is the same thing that PORTREVISION is meant for doing. If the maintainer like what has just recently happened for jpeg bumps the PORTREVISION up one for every port that depends on jpeg then any upgrade utilities see that port as a new vers

Re: py25-dbutils will not package

2009-08-06 Thread Nicola Vitale
Hi, > [2009/8/6 Kenneth Dombrowski ] > An attempt to package py-dbutils looks like this: > > r...@db2 ports $ portupgrade -pf databases/py-dbutils > Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/py25-dbutils-1.0.tbz > Registering depends: python25-2.5.4_2. > Creating bzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/pack

Re: py25-dbutils will not package

2009-08-06 Thread David Southwell
> Hi all, > > I have a cluster of webservers running apache22 + python25 + webware > for python 0.9.3. I am building a few new servers to add to the > cluster & took the opportunity to update ports-all for the first time > in awhile. I have one package server, where everything is built from > sou

Re: devel/qt4-designer fails on -current

2009-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
Doug Barton wrote: > All the other qt4 stuff updated just fine, this one doesn't (and I > already disabled make-jobs). Well I'm a bit embarrassed. :-/ I just re-read the UPDATING entry on qt4 stuff and it turns out that this issue is mentioned. Deleting the port first and then installing it works

Re: devel/dbus-qt4 won't build

2009-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
Lars Eighner wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Doug Barton wrote: > >> Naram Qashat wrote: >> >>> Actually, I had this problem as well, I found the solution (after a bit >>> of Googling), is to deinstall devel/dbus-qt4 and then install it again. >>> Apparently the update conflicts with the older versio

Re: getting bogged down by malfunctioning ports subsystem

2009-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 06.08.2009, 05:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Barton : > > >> I have considered changing the order of how portmaster does things from: >> >> build >> backup package (unless -B) >> deinstall >> install >> >> to: >> backup package >> deinstall >> build >> install >> >> That is und

Re: [kde-freebsd] devel/qt4-designer fails on -current

2009-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
Kent Stewart wrote: > I had the same problem. It was fixed in a later update. You need to cvsup > again or what ever you use. I already have the latest version. > You may hit problem with phonon, which the current UPDATING tells you to > delete. Using portupgrade, kdepim was updated after kde

Re: [kde-freebsd] devel/qt4-designer fails on -current

2009-08-06 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 06 August 2009 08:52:27 am Doug Barton wrote: > All the other qt4 stuff updated just fine, this one doesn't (and I > already disabled make-jobs). > > > Doug > > c++ -c -pipe -g -g -O2 -Wall -W -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE > -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_SCRIPT_LIB -DQT_XML_LIB > -DQT_

devel/qt4-designer fails on -current

2009-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
All the other qt4 stuff updated just fine, this one doesn't (and I already disabled make-jobs). Doug c++ -c -pipe -g -g -O2 -Wall -W -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_SCRIPT_LIB -DQT_XML_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/local/share/qt4

Re: devel/glib install is not correct.

2009-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
khsing wrote: > I have found the reason. because libtool15 have been mv to libtool22. > > so upgrade libtool from 15 to 22 will resolve this problem. > > portmaster -Btuw libtool Please check ports/UPDATING for the correct procedure. Of the flags you suggested, -t and -u are meaningless in this

py25-dbutils will not package

2009-08-06 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Hi all, I have a cluster of webservers running apache22 + python25 + webware for python 0.9.3. I am building a few new servers to add to the cluster & took the opportunity to update ports-all for the first time in awhile. I have one package server, where everything is built from source using `po

Building rails with ruby 1.9

2009-08-06 Thread Stef Walter
I'm having a problem building rails with ruby 1.9. It seems to depend on 'rubygem-rake' but that is apparently to be included with ruby 1.9. See below. Cheers, Stef RAILS INSTALL OUTPUT /usr/ports/www/rubygem-rails # make install ===> Installing for rubygem-rails-2.3.3 ===> rubygem-rails-2.

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread b. f.
>but x11-toolkits/py-gtk2 will not build with py26-cairo, but insists on > py25-cairo which will not build with or without python26 >I realize this stuff is put together by object-oriented people who aren't >really used to the expectation that stuff will, you know, actually work. You're chasing

Re: x11-toolkits/xview (actually contool)

2009-08-06 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
2009/8/6 Mel Flynn : > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 20:08:55 Doug Barton wrote: >> Ok, so now I'm up to the point where starting contool give me this: >> >> contool >> Assertion failed: (ret != inval_id), function _XAllocID, file >> xcb_io.c, line 378. >> Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) > > You get a be

Problem compiling port

2009-08-06 Thread jigger smith
Hi, I have tried to install bsd-airtools from your ports collection, but as you can see there appears to be a problem. Any suggestions? [jig...@mageddo]$ cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/bsd-airtools [jig...@mageddo]$ sudo make install clean ===> bsd-airtools-0.3 broken by removal of wicontrol ioctls

Re: devel/glib install is not correct.

2009-08-06 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:35:32 -0500, khsing wrote: I have found the reason. because libtool15 have been mv to libtool22. It is documented in /usr/ports/UPDATING. so upgrade libtool from 15 to 22 will resolve this problem. portmaster -Btuw libtool On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:36 PM, 葉佳威 Jiawei

Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
Okay py25-cairo will not build with python26 But with python26 it won't build either. py26-cairo will build with python26 and replaces py25-cairo but x11-toolkits/py-gtk2 will not build with py26-cairo, but insists on py25-cairo which will not build with or without python26 I realize this stu

Re: Is somebody working on these ports? (libquantum, spark, eiffel)

2009-08-06 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:50:25 +0200, t_ziel a écrit : > The latest development snapshot is dated: 2009-01-13 so it's not too > old, nor dead. > http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=184 Se 2 is mostly dead: http://n2.nabble.com/Status-of-SmartEiffel-(alive-or-dead)-td3085602.html > If SmartEiffe

Re: What does py25 mean?

2009-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Florent Thoumie wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: What does py25 mean? I can't seem to upgrade about 40 ports (the old versions of which now seem to be broken) evidently because the build of py25-gtk-2.13.1 fails with the message    py25-cairo-1.8

Re: getting bogged down by malfunctioning ports subsystem

2009-08-06 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 06.08.2009, 05:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Barton : I have considered changing the order of how portmaster does things from: build backup package (unless -B) deinstall install to: backup package deinstall build install That is undoubtedly more dangerous, and would require the "automated backout"

Re: devel/dbus-qt4 won't build

2009-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Doug Barton wrote: Naram Qashat wrote: Actually, I had this problem as well, I found the solution (after a bit of Googling), is to deinstall devel/dbus-qt4 and then install it again. Apparently the update conflicts with the older version already installed. Oy, that's not