ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread FBSD1
It's my understanding that a port maintainer has to install the port for real any time a change is made to the port make files or a update to the source of the software to test and verify the changes work as wanted. Creating the package after this is just one command and a ftp upload to the package

RE: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread joeb
On Wed, October 29, 2008 9:09 am, FBSD1 wrote: > It's my understanding that a port maintainer has to install the port for > real any time a change is made to the port make files or a update to the > source of the software to test and verify the changes work as wanted. > Creating the package after t

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Remko Lodder
On Wed, October 29, 2008 9:09 am, FBSD1 wrote: > It's my understanding that a port maintainer has to install the port for > real any time a change is made to the port make files or a update to the > source of the software to test and verify the changes work as wanted. > Creating the package after

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:09:23PM +0800, FBSD1 wrote: > It's my understanding that a port maintainer has to install the port for > real any time a change is made to the port make files or a update to the > source of the software to test and verify the changes work as wanted. > Creating the package

RE: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Remko Lodder
On Wed, October 29, 2008 9:53 am, joeb wrote: > On Wed, October 29, 2008 9:09 am, FBSD1 wrote: >> It's my understanding that a port maintainer has to install the port for >> real any time a change is made to the port make files or a update to the >> source of the software to test and verify the ch

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 10/29/08, FBSD1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's my understanding that a port maintainer has to install the port for > real any time a change is made to the port make files or a update to the > source of the software to test and verify the changes work as wanted. Port maintainers usually ver

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:02:14PM +0800, joeb wrote: > How does kdenetwork-kopete-0.12.8 or php5-gd or pdflib fit into those > reasons you gave? > These all have ports but no package for many releases of Freebsd. > For print/pdflib it is legal restrictions. (The Makefile says "RESTRICTED= m

KDE4/kopete port and MSN problems

2008-10-29 Thread Kenneth Karoliussen
Hi, I'm struggling to make kopete connect to the MSN service on a FreeBSD 7.1BETA2 system with KDE4. The following debug log occurs when trying to issue a connect: kopete(1370)/kopete (msn) MSNAccount::setOnlineStatus: "Online" kopete(1370)/kopete (msn - raw protocol) MSNSocket::slotReadyWrite:

RE: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread joeb
-Original Message- From: Erik Trulsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:47 PM To: FBSD1 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ports missing their packages. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:09:23PM +0800, FBSD1 wrote: > It's my understanding that

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-10-29 04:42:18 UTC-0500, Scot Hetzel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So you are advocating that port maintainers have to create packages > for all the supported FreeBSD architecture's (amd64, arm, i386, ia64, > mips, pc98, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v). That would be 9 packages > needing to b

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread mdh
--- On Wed, 10/29/08, FBSD1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: FBSD1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: ports missing their packages. > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 4:09 AM > It's my understanding that a port maintainer has

Re: KDE4/kopete port and MSN problems

2008-10-29 Thread Gergely CZUCZY
Hello, AFAIK this is a known problem, and it's already reported in the kde bugtracker. On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:58:57 +0100 (CET) "Kenneth Karoliussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm struggling to make kopete connect to the MSN service on a FreeBSD > 7.1BETA2 system with KDE4. > > T

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:42:18AM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote: > So you are advocating that port maintainers have to create packages > for all the supported FreeBSD architecture's (amd64, arm, i386, ia64, > mips, pc98, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v). That would be 9 packages > needing to be created at the

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:09:23PM +0800, FBSD1 wrote: > An alternate solution to this problem is to allow users to upload missing > packages one word for you: "security". What you suggest is never, ever, going to be implemented, due to the total lack of security. mcl ___

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:02:14PM +0800, joeb wrote: > How does kdenetwork-kopete-0.12.8 or php5-gd or pdflib fit into those > reasons you gave? A little research shows: ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/All/php5-gd-5.2.6_2.tbz So, there is a current package for ph

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:00:50PM +1100, andrew clarke wrote: > Presumably the 6.x series wlll be retired before 8.x is released... :) No, there will be an overlap. See http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html#supported-branches. 8.0 had *better* be out before 2010 :-) > That brings up a que

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Wesley Shields
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:17:22AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:00:50PM +1100, andrew clarke wrote: > > Presumably the 6.x series wlll be retired before 8.x is released... :) > > No, there will be an overlap. See > http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html#supported-br

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:55:20AM -0700, mdh wrote: > email the FreeBSD Foundation and find out how much cash it'd take for > additional hardware to make that a reality, then send them that much cash. We are actually set up ok on amd64 machines right now (incremental package builds take just ov

FreeBSD Port: tovid-0.30_6

2008-10-29 Thread tigner
Dear Sir(s), I would like to bring your attention to a problem in the scripts in the tovid package. tovid uses mplayer to identify characteristics of a video. mplayer uses $home/.mplayer/config as its config file. IF $home/.mplayer/config has an entry 'loop = 0' then tovid/makexml/idvid scripts

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Oct-29 10:22:36 -0500, Mark Linimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We also have some sparc64 machines that are on loan to us, which I am >also in the process of configuration, but these are only UltraSPARC-II >machines. There seems to be some work going on right now to get us >running on US-I

Re: py-zsi totally broken

2008-10-29 Thread Marcus Alves Grando
Fixed using easy_install. Thanks Dominic Fandrey wrote: I have set PYTHON_VERSION= 2.5 in my make.conf. This is the only thing that comes to mind as a possible reason. pkg_info -g py25-zsi-2.0,1 pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ZSI-2.0-py2.5.egg-info doesn't exist

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Oct-29 16:09:23 +0800, FBSD1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's my understanding that a port maintainer has to install the port for >real any time a change is made to the port make files or a update to the >source of the software to test and verify the changes work as wanted. I'm not sure wh