Re: Is there any RSS feed or mailing list that informs users when new package version is available via pkg.freebsd.org?

2018-06-14 Thread Dutch Daemon - FreeBSD Forums Administrator
On 13-6-2018 19:14, Yuri wrote: > One user asked me this question via e-mail, and I don't know the > answer myself. I use http://www.freshports.org/backend/rss2.0.php myself, but this may not be what you are looking for. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

FreeBSD ports you maintain which are out of date

2018-06-14 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Dear port maintainer, The portscout new distfile checker has detected that one or more of your ports appears to be out of date.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

General clarification about ports and CouchDB 2.x specifically

2018-06-14 Thread Andrea Brancatelli
Hi, I know this is probably a good candidate for a "read the docs"-kind of question, but is there anyone who can clarify me whats the exact situation for this "new" port that seem to have gotten stuck in the middle of it's path? https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218844 I'm not

Re: General clarification about ports and CouchDB 2.x specifically

2018-06-14 Thread Mathieu Arnold
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 04:21:57PM +0200, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: > Hi, > > I know this is probably a good candidate for a "read the docs"-kind of > question, but is there anyone who can clarify me whats the exact > situation for this "new" port that seem to have gotten stuck in the > middle of

Removing git dependencies on perl5 and python27

2018-06-14 Thread Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
Hello list, I'm probably not alone in considering git to be a core development tool, perhaps just a notch or two below the C compiler. `git` and `sudo` are the two packages I first install (after `pkg` itself) on any machine, and in many cases that suffices to get a basic development environment g

Re: Removing git dependencies on perl5 and python27

2018-06-14 Thread Felix Hanley
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:15:49PM -0500, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi wrote: > > (Obviously the option of adding a "git-lite" package à la "vim-lite" also > exists, but I think it's fair to say that would be an ugly and unnecessary > compromise.) That ugly compromise has already been made: $ pkg search

Re: Removing git dependencies on perl5 and python27

2018-06-14 Thread Adam Weinberger
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:16 PM Mahmoud Al-Qudsi wrote: > > Hello list, > > I'm probably not alone in considering git to be a core development tool, > perhaps just a notch or two below the C compiler. `git` and `sudo` are the two > packages I first install (after `pkg` itself) on any machine, and