From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 30 14:30:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from minubian.houabg.com (minubian.houabg.com [206.109.247.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6921337B8B1 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dchapman@houabg.com) Received: from houcbs2.houabg.com (mailhost.houabg.com [206.109.247.20]) by minubian.houabg.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11579 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:23:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dchapman@houabg.com) Received: from 216-118-21-147.pdq.net by houcbs2.houabg.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1457.7) id 2NRQQCC4; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 16:38:30 -0500 Message-ID: <007301bfb2eb$461679c0$931576d8@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: "Brett Taylor" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Numerous broken ports Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 16:30:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4029.2901 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I actually think 4 is one of the best releases and most stable release we've had as an x.0 release. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Taylor" To: Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 4:15 PM Subject: Re: Numerous broken ports > Hi, > > On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Michael Sierchio wrote: > > > Brett Taylor wrote: > > > > > Try re-cvsup'ing your ports tree. > > > Done early and often. This of avail only if the port maintainer has > > done anything useful, like checking the port against a new -RELEASE or > > -STABLE distribution. > > First Satoshi builds ALL of the ports on a weekly (I believe) basis for > 3.4, 4.0, and 5.0 (3.4 testing is probably dead or on its way out > relatively soon). If it doesn't build there, it's flagged as broken. > > How are you cvsup'ing ports (ie, what's your supfile look like)? > What are you using for a ports-all tag? I run everything from 3.4 ports to > 4.0 ports on a single 3.4 machine and never have trouble with a weekly > CVSup. > > > I've not noticed as many broken ports as there are now. > > I have no idea what this means - what are your comparison dates? Frankly > I've been using ports since 2.1.7 and the ONLY time I've had trouble w/ > ports is when it was operator error. > > > And the quality, as of 4.0-RELEASE / -STABLE is decidedly poor. > > Funny I haven't noticed this or seen many complaints in -questions or > other mailing lists either. > > Brett > ***************************************************** > Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * > Dept of Chem and Physics * > Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * > Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * > Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * > ***************************************************** > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message