Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:15:01PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On 09/07/2011 00:07, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > > How is it impractical to, as a rule, set an expiration date based on > > an anticipated future release date rather than only a month or two > > out from when the decision is mad

Re: suggestion for pkgdb from ports-mgmt/portupgrade: add more explanation

2011-09-07 Thread Stanislav Sedov
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:33:02 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" mentioned: > Hi, > Suggestion: pkgdb is too cryptic even with -v, > it needs more explanation what it is up to & > particularly what decisions it asks from user > Hi, Julian! Thanks for the great suggestions, I will try to improve the mess

maintainership of mail/milter-greylist-devel, dns/py-adns and dns/checkdns

2011-09-07 Thread Mikhail Tsatsenko
Hi, I want to maintain this ports: mail/milter-greylist-devel dns/py-adns dns/checkdns Thanks! -- Mikhail m.tsatse...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send an

INDEX build failed for 7.x

2011-09-07 Thread Erwin Lansing
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-7 - please wait.. Done. Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: xforms-1.0.93.s1,1 Committers on the hook: az bapt beat culot dougb gahr sbz stas tobez Most recent CVS update was: U audio/rubyripper/Makefile U comms/echolinux/Makefile U comms/echolinux/fi

Re: HEADS UP: ca_root_nss seems to trip up OpenSSL on FreeBSD 7.3

2011-09-07 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:04:38 +0200 Matthias Andree articulated: > Greetings, > > apparently the new /etc/ssl/cert.pem file installed by > security/ca_root_nss trips up the OpenSSL 0.9.8e in the 7.3-RELEASE > base system. I haven't tested 7.4, 8.1 or 8.2, 8-STABLE is unaffected > by the problem. >

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread perryh
Doug Barton wrote: > On 09/07/2011 00:07, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Doug Barton wrote: > >>> Better to deprecate such non urgent ports, & wait a while > >>> after next release is rolled, to give release users a warning > >>> & some time to volunteer ... > > That's an

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > One thing I've seen come up that I definitely think would be a good idea, > though, is more accessible documentation of the CVS "attic", though. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/?hideattic=0#dirlist For example, net/ztelnet is no longer in the ports, but: http://www.freebsd.org

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Sep-06 23:30:04 -0700, Stanislav Sedov wrote: >What about requiring that the ports deprecated should be either broken >or have known published vulnerabilties for a long period of >time (say 6 months) for the start? This might be reasonable for broken ports but ports with known vulnerabili

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:37:07PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-Sep-06 23:30:04 -0700, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > >What about requiring that the ports deprecated should be either broken > >or have known published vulnerabilties for a long period of > >time (say 6 months) for the start? > >

INDEX now builds successfully on 7.x

2011-09-07 Thread Erwin Lansing
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Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:37:07PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2011-Sep-06 23:30:04 -0700, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > > > What about requiring that the ports deprecated should be either broken > > > or have known published vulnerabilties for a long period of > > > t

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:53:31PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > > > One thing I've seen come up that I definitely think would be a good idea, > > though, is more accessible documentation of the CVS "attic", though. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/?hideattic=0#dirlist > > For exam

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:37:07PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-Sep-07 01:35:54 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > One thing I've seen come up that I definitely think would be a good > > idea, though, is more accessible documentation of the CVS "attic", > > though. I had no idea such a thi

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:25:15AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:37:07PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2011-Sep-07 01:35:54 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > > > One thing I've seen come up that I definitely think would be a good > > > idea, though, is more accessible

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Chris Rees
On 7 Sep 2011 16:53, "Mikhail T." wrote: > > On -10.01.-28163 14:59, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> I don't actually think they've been divisive -- it's been policy for years. > > > The policy -- up until fairly recently -- was to remove ports, that *fail to build* for a while. This made sense -- if the

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Mikhail T.
On 07.09.2011 12:04, Chris Rees wrote: However... I find it deeply troubling that you consider buildability more important than security fixes. Are you actually serious? Yes, I'm, of course, serious. As you formulated above, the question is a no brainer: software, that does not build is ul

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Mikhail T.
On -10.01.-28163 14:59, Chris Rees wrote: I don't actually think they've been divisive -- it's been policy for years. The policy -- up until fairly recently -- was to remove ports, that *fail to build* for a while. This made sense -- if the port remains unbuildable long enough, then, certainl

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:57:17PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:25:15AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > My understanding is that you are saying "attic" is just the standard > > term for CVS history. Is that the case, or do I misunderstand your > > point? > > Almost

x11/xvattr - why exoired?

2011-09-07 Thread Heino Tiedemann
Hi, I need the port x11/xvattr. But now it is expired :( See his PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=149851 I need the port zu use vlc AND mplayer - thise players toggle this: , | "XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 1) | client settable attribute | client gettable attribute

Re: maintainership of mail/milter-greylist-devel, dns/py-adns and dns/checkdns

2011-09-07 Thread Chris Rees
2011/9/7 Mikhail Tsatsenko : > Hi, > I want to maintain this ports: > mail/milter-greylist-devel > dns/py-adns > dns/checkdns > Done. Thanks for volunteering. I know it seems overkill, but for future reference a PR is less likely to get lost in the mailing list. Chris ___

Re: suggestion for pkgdb from ports-mgmt/portupgrade: add more explanation

2011-09-07 Thread Stanislav Sedov
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 11:39:14 +0200 Michel Talon mentioned: > > Your answer is very interesting and allows me to go further in the > reasoning. Indeed the UPDATING file is here to solve edge cases. My > point is that there shouldn't be any edge cases, if there are some it is > because something so

Re: x11/xvattr - why exoired?

2011-09-07 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Heino Tiedemann wrote: > Hi, > > I need the port x11/xvattr. > > But now it is expired :( > > > See his PR: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=149851 It seems from that PR that VLC should be fixed - you could always ask the developers there if they are

Re: x11/xvattr - why exoired?

2011-09-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Heino Tiedemann wrote: > Hi, > > I need the port x11/xvattr. > ... > What can I do? Submit a working port in a PR and assume maintainership. Make sure to fix the reason it was expired in the first place (which may be becoming the upstream maintainer as well). >

subversion 1.7.0-rc2 port for testing

2011-09-07 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, FreeBSD. I've prepared port for subversion-1.7.0-rc2 for testing. It is attached. svn_hacks-1.7.patch is included, in case it will not be available on ${MASTERSITE_LOCAL} Notes: (1) RC2 doesn't contain 'contrib' directory, so ASVN and mdo_dontdothat is turend off (2) FreeBSD hacks

Re: x11/xvattr - why exoired?

2011-09-07 Thread Stanislav Sedov
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:57:40 +0200 Heino Tiedemann mentioned: > Hi, > > I need the port x11/xvattr. > > But now it is expired :( > Hi! I just reverted that commit and brought it back. Sorry for the inconveniences! -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-m

Re: maintainership of mail/milter-greylist-devel, dns/py-adns and dns/checkdns

2011-09-07 Thread Mikhail Tsatsenko
On 07.09.2011 23:35, Chris Rees wrote: 2011/9/7 Mikhail Tsatsenko: Hi, I want to maintain this ports: mail/milter-greylist-devel dns/py-adns dns/checkdns Done. Thanks for volunteering. I know it seems overkill, but for future reference a PR is less likely to get lost in the mailing list. T

Re: x11/xvattr - why exoired?

2011-09-07 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Heino Tiedemann wrote: Hi, I need the port x11/xvattr. But now it is expired :( See his PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=149851 I need the port zu use vlc AND mplayer - thise players toggle this: , | "XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 1) | client s

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread perryh
Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-Sep-07 10:02:42 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > >Reread the first paragraph. Provided the port is still in the > >tree, when they try to build it the ports mechanism reports the > >FORBIDDEN/BROKEN/whatever which describes the problem, and the > >expiration da

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 9/7/2011 10:02 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >> On 09/07/2011 00:07, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >>> Doug Barton wrote: > Better to deprecate such non urgent ports, & wait a while > after next release is rolled, to give release users a warning >

ports-system priorities rant (Re: sysutils/cfs)

2011-09-07 Thread Mikhail T.
On -10.01.-28163 14:59, Doug Barton wrote: Non sequitur. The large number of ports that we support IS a feature. However, it's also a pretty big maintenance burden. Especially when you consider the number of those ports that are either actually or effectively unmaintained. Support? What suppor

Bumping lightning to 1.0b5 so it works with Thunderbird 6.0.1

2011-09-07 Thread Lawrence Stewart
Hi Gecko team, The update from Thunderbird 6.0 to 6.0.1 has stopped the Lightning 1.0b5pre plugin from working - it claims to be incompatible with the new version of Thunderbird and can't be enabled. Lightning 1.0b5 seems to work fine with Thunderbird 6.0.1 on my wife's windows PC, so I'm gue

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Doug Barton > Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:45:51 -0700 > Message-id: <4e67f41f.70...@freebsd.org> Doug Barton wrote: > On 9/7/2011 10:02 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Doug Barton wrote: > >> On 09/07/2011 00:07, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > >>> D

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Glen Barber
On 9/7/11 9:28 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> And what we have been trying to explain to you is that this has never >> been a supported mode of operation. We don't tie the ports tree to >> specific releases, > > FreeBSD doese "tie the ports tree to specific releases". We have ports > freezes befo

The cost of a source based package system

2011-09-07 Thread Stefan Schaeckeler
Hi all, please don't take this posting too serious. I was just curious ... Just the other day, I bought a kill-a-watt. Among other things, I measured the "cost of a source based package system", i.e. I was comparing the energy cost of installing ports from source vs binary packages (setup, see b

Re: The cost of a source based package system

2011-09-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Stefan Schaeckeler wrote: > Hi all, please don't take this posting too serious. I was just curious ... Thanks for the disclaimer. > . Among other things, I measured the "cost of a source based package system", > i.e. I was comparing the energy cost of installing

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 Sep 2011 02:29, "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > Hi, > Reference: > > From: Doug Barton > > Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:45:51 -0700 > > Message-id: <4e67f41f.70...@freebsd.org> > > Doug Barton wrote: > > On 9/7/2011 10:02 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > Doug Barton wrote