FreeBSD ports you maintain which are out of date

2017-06-22 Thread portscout
Dear port maintainer, The portscout new distfile checker has detected that one or more of your ports appears to be out of date. Please take the opportunity to check each of the ports listed below, and if possible and appropriate, submit/commit an update. If any ports have already been updated, you

[RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread David Demelier
Hello, Today I've upgraded one of my personal FreeBSD servers. It's running FreeBSD 11.0 for a while. While I use quarterly ports branches, I usually update my ports tree before installing a new service and I faced some troubles: www/node was updated from 6.x to 7.x: unfortunately my etherpad in

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 02:15:02PM +0200, David Demelier wrote: > Hello, > > Today I've upgraded one of my personal FreeBSD servers. It's running > FreeBSD 11.0 for a while. > > While I use quarterly ports branches, I usually update my ports tree > before installing a new service and I faced some

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
El 22 jun. 2017 14:15, "David Demelier" escribió: Hello, Today I've upgraded one of my personal FreeBSD servers. It's running FreeBSD 11.0 for a while. While I use quarterly ports branches, I usually update my ports tree before installing a new service and I faced some troubles: www/node was u

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 02:18:56PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 02:15:02PM +0200, David Demelier wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Today I've upgraded one of my personal FreeBSD servers. It's running > > FreeBSD 11.0 for a while. > > > > While I use quarterly ports branches,

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Vlad K.
On 2017-06-22 14:15, David Demelier wrote: While I use quarterly ports branches, I usually update my ports tree before installing a new service and I faced some troubles: What works best for us, to keep a stable production, is to track the HEAD with svn. That way we can pre-empt changes local

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread David Demelier
2017-06-22 14:18 GMT+02:00 Baptiste Daroussin : > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 02:15:02PM +0200, David Demelier wrote: > As usual with such proposal, where do you find the manpower to handle the > number > of branches required (the quarterly branches are already hard to maintain, it > is > only one br

NEW APR/APR-Utils

2017-06-22 Thread The Doctor
ARR and APR-utils are up to 1.6.X Please update ports accordingly. -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Yahweh, Queen & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! https://www.empire.kred/ROOTNK?t=94a1f39b Look at Psalms 14 and

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread scratch65535
[Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:18:56 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >As usual with such proposal, where do you find the manpower to handle the >number >of branches required (the quarterly branches are already hard to maintain, it >is >only one branch). Please help me out here, Baptiste, be

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:03:33AM -0400, scratch65...@att.net wrote: > [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:18:56 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin > wrote: > > >As usual with such proposal, where do you find the manpower to handle the > >number > >of branches required (the quarterly branches are already h

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread David Demelier
2017-06-22 16:16 GMT+02:00 Baptiste Daroussin : > The model with one branch per release will bring it to way more with a > maintenance window way larger (actually it is 3 month making the quarterly > relatively easy to maintain) So after three months if you don't switch branch, you're outdated sin

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 2017/06/22 15:03, scratch65...@att.net wrote: > Why don't the same choices apply here? What am I missing? Two things: 1) It's progress in the development of the FreeBSD base system that drives the release cycle. The general state of the ports does not exert much influence on release freque

PR needs care

2017-06-22 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi, Can anyone have a look at this? https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220212 Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebs

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Baho Utot
On 6/22/2017 10:03 AM, scratch65...@att.net wrote: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:18:56 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: As usual with such proposal, where do you find the manpower to handle the number of branches required (the quarterly branches are already hard to maintain, it is only one

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Torsten Zuehlsdorff
On 22.06.2017 21:26, Baho Utot wrote: On 6/22/2017 10:03 AM, scratch65...@att.net wrote: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:18:56 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: As usual with such proposal, where do you find the manpower to handle the number of branches required (the quarterly branches are al

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread scratch65535
[Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:38:53 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >On 2017/06/22 15:03, scratch65...@att.net wrote: >> Why don't the same choices apply here? What am I missing? > >Two things: > > 1) It's progress in the development of the FreeBSD base system that >drives the release cycle. T

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 22/6/17 10:16 pm, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:03:33AM -0400, scratch65...@att.net wrote: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:18:56 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: As usual with such proposal, where do you find the manpower to handle the number of branches required (t

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Baho Utot
On 6/22/2017 11:30 AM, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote: On 22.06.2017 21:26, Baho Utot wrote: On 6/22/2017 10:03 AM, scratch65...@att.net wrote: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:18:56 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: As usual with such proposal, where do you find the manpower to handle the numbe

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Torsten Zuehlsdorff
On 22.06.2017 21:56, Baho Utot wrote: On 6/22/2017 11:30 AM, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote: On 22.06.2017 21:26, Baho Utot wrote: On 6/22/2017 10:03 AM, scratch65...@att.net wrote: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:18:56 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: As usual with such proposal, where do you

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 22/6/17 11:50 pm, scratch65...@att.net wrote: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:38:53 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 2017/06/22 15:03, scratch65...@att.net wrote: Why don't the same choices apply here? What am I missing? Two things: 1) It's progress in the development of the FreeBSD b

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread scratch65535
[Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 17:30:10 +0200, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote: >I regularly seeing admins setting up different Ubuntu versions, because >at one you have PHP 7 and on the other MySQL 5.7, but not both at the >same Ubuntu version. Which is one of the nice things about having central de

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 2017/06/22 20:56, Baho Utot wrote: > One could still use releng 11.0 ports with 10.3 OS could they not No, not in general. You've got it the wrong way round. You might get away with releng 10.3 ports and 11.0 OS for a while but it will likely cause you grief when you do run afoul of a necessa

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread scratch65535
[Default] On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:01:45 +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >I've had this conversation with ports several times, But the requirements >of 'business' is not their interest. In fact i was told several times, >"Don't use our quarterly packages, make your own with poudriere". >(which make

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread scratch65535
[Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:16:44 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >The model with one branch per release will bring it to way more with a >maintenance window way larger It would indeed! Factor of 3, I think. But I'm really not suggesting that, I'm suggesting that a better schedule wou

Thunderbird + Lightning on FreeBSD

2017-06-22 Thread Rastko P
I tried compiling Thunderbird from ports, but it's too big, and there are errors. I'll try to do it some time again, starting clean. But in the mean time... Choosing the macOS extension/add-on format seems to be working for the binary distribution. Just go to Most Popular add-ons, and Ligthning

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Dave Hayes
On 06/22/2017 08:53, Julian Elischer wrote: Yeah but the quarterly branches are relatively useless because they a not sync'd to anything and mean nothing special to anyone. They are not useless to me. I maintain a fair number of different package repositories for various purposes. Over a long

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Dave Hayes
On 06/22/2017 09:16, scratch65...@att.net wrote: I can't help feeling that there's something very wrong when people for whom the system is a tool rather than a plaything have to work around the choices made by the "official" developers. I'd say this is true no matter what OS you use these days.

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread demelier . david
On Thu, 2017-06-22 at 10:43 -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: > They are not useless to me. > > I maintain a fair number of different package repositories for > various > purposes. Over a long period of time I've found that trying to build > from HEAD is a random crapshoot as to whether everything you wa

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Dave Hayes
On 06/22/2017 11:43, demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Let me use my example of www/node back. I have built the port www/node in poudriere using this origin (so no version). At the time I've built it it was a 6.x version. When I upgraded my machine, www/node has switched to 7.x version and since th

Re: NEW APR/APR-Utils

2017-06-22 Thread Andre Goree
On 2017/06/22 9:00 am, The Doctor wrote: ARR and APR-utils are up to 1.6.X Please update ports accordingly. -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Yahweh, Queen & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! https://www.empire.k

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:32:45PM -0400, scratch65...@att.net wrote: > My problem is that my industry experience tells me that reducing > the frequency of port releases is practically *guaranteed* to be > a Really Good Thing for everyone. I remember before we had the quarterly releases, and peopl

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread scratch65535
[Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:11:26 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: >On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:32:45PM -0400, scratch65...@att.net wrote: >> My problem is that my industry experience tells me that reducing >> the frequency of port releases is practically *guaranteed* to be >> a Really Good Thing f

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Miroslav Lachman
scratch65...@att.net wrote on 2017/06/23 00:15: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:11:26 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:32:45PM -0400, scratch65...@att.net wrote: My problem is that my industry experience tells me that reducing the frequency of port releases is practicall

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Baho Utot
On 6/22/2017 6:36 PM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: scratch65...@att.net wrote on 2017/06/23 00:15: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:11:26 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:32:45PM -0400, scratch65...@att.net wrote: My problem is that my industry experience tells me that reduci

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Grzegorz Junka
On 22/06/2017 15:50, scratch65...@att.net wrote: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:38:53 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 2017/06/22 15:03, scratch65...@att.net wrote: Why don't the same choices apply here? What am I missing? Two things: 1) It's progress in the development of the FreeBSD

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Grzegorz Junka
On 22/06/2017 23:16, Baho Utot wrote: On 6/22/2017 6:36 PM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: scratch65...@att.net wrote on 2017/06/23 00:15: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:11:26 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:32:45PM -0400, scratch65...@att.net wrote: My problem is that my

www/libxul

2017-06-22 Thread George Mitchell
At svn revision 443684. After "make clean extract": work/firefox-45.9.0esr/.mozconfig does not exist. No file under www/libxul contains the string "--enable-jemalloc=4". In particular, no patch file in the files directory refers to .mozconfig or contains "--enable-jemalloc=4". But after "make pat

Re: NEW APR/APR-Utils

2017-06-22 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
Andre, I've been down this path a few times and Bernard (who looks after most/all? things related to libressl) does a great job in supporting people like us that build our own packages. Out of frustration of build failures, I applied the patch below, please pay attention to line-breaks. This isn'

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Baho Utot
On 6/22/2017 8:31 PM, Grzegorz Junka wrote: On 22/06/2017 23:16, Baho Utot wrote: On 6/22/2017 6:36 PM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: scratch65...@att.net wrote on 2017/06/23 00:15: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:11:26 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:32:45PM -0400, scra

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > Mark, I can only suppose that those complainers are dilettantes > of some sort who believe that having The Latest-And-Greatest Bits > is a social-status enhancer. **Nobody** with real work to do > ever willingly fools away time "fixing" what isn't broken. There's a blog post from one of th

Re: NEW APR/APR-Utils

2017-06-22 Thread The Doctor
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:43:14AM +1000, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: > Andre, > I've been down this path a few times and Bernard (who looks after > most/all? things related to libressl) does a great job in supporting > people like us that build our own packages. > > Out of frustration of build failur

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 23/6/17 6:36 am, Miroslav Lachman wrote: scratch65...@att.net wrote on 2017/06/23 00:15: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:11:26 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:32:45PM -0400, scratch65...@att.net wrote: My problem is that my industry experience tells me that reducing

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 23/6/17 10:39 am, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! Mark, I can only suppose that those complainers are dilettantes of some sort who believe that having The Latest-And-Greatest Bits is a social-status enhancer. **Nobody** with real work to do ever willingly fools away time "fixing" what isn't broken.

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 23/6/17 2:57 am, Dave Hayes wrote: On 06/22/2017 11:43, demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Let me use my example of www/node back. I have built the port www/node in poudriere using this origin (so no version). At the time I've built it it was a 6.x version. When I upgraded my machine, www/node h

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 23/6/17 7:28 am, Grzegorz Junka wrote: On 22/06/2017 15:50, scratch65...@att.net wrote: [Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:38:53 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 2017/06/22 15:03, scratch65...@att.net wrote: Why don't the same choices apply here? What am I missing? Two things: 1) It's

Re: NEW APR/APR-Utils

2017-06-22 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
Rightly or wrongly I haven't tested with apr-1.6. I pretty much adhere to the versions within /usr/ports. Only when there's a CVE do I break ranks - and usually after I've filed a PR for the (security) issue to be addressed. Sometimes the maintainers' need to have their attention drawn to availa

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:58:14AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > What we want is: > A "recent" starting point for our next project/upgrade to start from > and an ongoing version of that, which will get critical fixes only for > at LEAST 2 years, probably 5. > The key here is the *_*critical fixes

Re: www/libxul

2017-06-22 Thread Jan Beich
George Mitchell writes: > Consequently, the configure script dies at line 26248, complaining > that "Option, jemalloc, does not take an argument (4)". Sorry for the bustage. It should be fixed now. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/444163 ___

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 23/6/17 12:39 pm, Mark Linimon wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:58:14AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: What we want is: A "recent" starting point for our next project/upgrade to start from and an ongoing version of that, which will get critical fixes only for at LEAST 2 years, probably 5. The

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > > There's a blog post from one of the folks that explains the > > idea behind that 'fast update' mode of operations, and yes, > > he's doing real work. > > http://blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/1776-rolling-out-patches-and-changes-often-and-fast/ > That is ONE kind of installation. Well, t

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 23/6/17 1:23 pm, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! There's a blog post from one of the folks that explains the idea behind that 'fast update' mode of operations, and yes, he's doing real work. http://blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/1776-rolling-out-patches-and-changes-often-and-fast/ That is ONE kind of

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 01:36:26PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > The problem is that such a set of sponsored branches does not exist so > knowing who'd sign up and who would't is just guesswork And that's why neither myself or the other people who have in the past considered such a business have

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Mark Linimon
You didn't read (or ignored) the last half of my post. Whatever. I'll go back to what I was doing before, e.g., cleaning up other people's messes. Your first two guesses of "what type of commit bits made the messes" don't count. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@