Re: saving a few ports from death

Doug Barton wrote: On 04/25/2011 17:28, martinko wrote: Ok, I skimmed through the list of deprecated ports and I identifed the following that I may be using or at least used in past and I could take over their maintenance to save them from death: Generally by the time that a port has deteriora

Re: expiration of net/skype ?!

On 1 May 2011 07:58, "mato" wrote: > > Peter Jeremy wrote: >> >> On 2011-Apr-26 01:47:30 +0200, martinko wrote: >> >>> >>> So what is this deprecation and expiration of net/skype port please ?? >>> >> >> Whilst the Skype port still works, the version of Skype referenced by >> the port is no longe

Re: expiration of net/skype ?!

Jason J. Hellenthal wrote: martinko, Hi, Ive read your post below and the following two messages on this among other messages regarding the deprecation of ports. One thing that should be noted is that once the deprecation process is done and over and the port nolonger becomes part of the tree,

Re: expiration of net/skype ?!

Chris Rees wrote: On 1 May 2011 07:58, "mato" > wrote: > > Peter Jeremy wrote: >> >> On 2011-Apr-26 01:47:30 +0200, martinko> wrote: >> >>> >>> So what is this deprecation and expiration of net/skype port please ?? >>> >> >> Whilst the

Re: Deprecation campaign

Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2011-Apr-26 02:02:02 +0200, martinko wrote: I understand you want to remove a port if it does not build and there is no one (in long time) to fix it. However, deprecating because a dist file moved, while port may be perfectly functional, seems a bit too much, imho.

Re: expiration of net/skype ?!

Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2011-Apr-26 01:47:30 +0200, martinko wrote: So what is this deprecation and expiration of net/skype port please ?? Whilst the Skype port still works, the version of Skype referenced by the port is no longer available and later versions of Skype do not (currentl

Re: Deprecation campaign

On 1 May 2011 08:31, "mato" wrote: > There are usually many users but only a few are ready to become maintainers (for whatever reasons). So no one stepping up does not really mean no one uses a port. But ok, I'll try to see what I can do for ports I might care about.. > They could always pay so

Re: gtk-qt4-engine problems

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > Some time ago it was enough to just install the x11-themes/gtk-qt4-engine > port and it would show up in KDE4 Application Appearance section. Now, the > port doesn't even install with the default options (which is problem which > apparently dates

Re: Deprecation campaign

On Sun, 1 May 2011 09:40:21 +0100 Chris Rees articulated: > On 1 May 2011 08:31, "mato" wrote: > > There are usually many users but only a few are ready to become > maintainers (for whatever reasons). So no one stepping up does not > really mean no one uses a port. But ok, I'll try to see what

Re: Deprecation campaign

On 1 May 2011 12:34, "Jerry" wrote: > > On Sun, 1 May 2011 09:40:21 +0100 > Chris Rees articulated: > > > On 1 May 2011 08:31, "mato" wrote: > > > There are usually many users but only a few are ready to become > > maintainers (for whatever reasons). So no one stepping up does not > > really me

Re: Deprecation campaign

On Sun, 1 May 2011 12:45:24 +0100 Chris Rees articulated: > On 1 May 2011 12:34, "Jerry" wrote: > > > > On Sun, 1 May 2011 09:40:21 +0100 > > Chris Rees articulated: > > > > > On 1 May 2011 08:31, "mato" wrote: > > > > There are usually many users but only a few are ready to become > > > maint

Re: Re: FreeBSD Port: squeezeboxserver-7.5.3,build okay but fails to start.

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Re: expiration of net/skype ?!

On 1 May 2011 08:26, mato wrote: > Chris Rees wrote: >> Mato wrote: >> > Ok, from my understanding it wouldn't be the first time a port distfile >> > is not (easily) available yet the port itself works if one can get the >> > distfile.  And it's very easy to search successfully the interwebs for t

Does your port specify its pid file location in a configuration file?

If you maintain a port that specifies its pid file location in its configuration file you may be interested in the get_pidfile_from_conf() method that I added to rc.subr recently. The change has been MFC'ed so it's available in RELENG_[78] as well. To see an example of how to implement it in a

Re: saving a few ports from death

On 05/01/2011 00:12, mato wrote: Regarding hosting the files -- one of the goals of the foundation is to provide infrastructure for the project. And this seems like one of the opportunities to do so. Besides, all of the ports mentioned have their distfiles already mirrored on FreeBSD's FTP. I