Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:19:51 +0200 From: axl@iafrica.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ports/8304: SUGGESTION: point to handbook for BROKEN ports Message-ID: <E0zT4Mh-0002sb-00@axl.training.iafrica.com>
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>Number: 8304
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: SUGGESTION: point to handbook for BROKEN ports
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Oct 13 06:30:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Sheldon Hearn
>Organization:
UUNET Internet Africa
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
Currently, broken ports simply display the contents of the
BROKEN* variable defined in their Makefiles. This may lead
to a large number of questions directed at the ports mailing
list along the lines of "when will this port be fixed."
Many of these questions may be asked _after_ a fix has
already been implimented, because a large number of
first-timers don't know how to update their local copies
of the ports tree.
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
The following patch teaches bsd.port.mk to point folks to
the CVSup entry in the Handbook, hopefully encouraging them
to update their local copies of the ports tree before
complaining about broken ports.
It would be good to impliment this _before_ 3.0 is released.
Index: bsd.port.mk
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/mk/bsd.port.mk,v
retrieving revision 1.227.2.57
diff -u -d -2 -r1.227.2.57 bsd.port.mk
--- bsd.port.mk 1998/10/09 01:27:55 1.227.2.57
+++ bsd.port.mk 1998/10/13 13:11:44
@@ -1030,6 +1030,10 @@
.elif (defined(BROKEN_ELF) && (${PORTOBJFORMAT} == "elf"))
IGNORE= "is broken for ELF: ${BROKEN_ELF}"
+IGNORE+=". For information on retrieving ports tree updates, see"
+IGNORE+="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook267.html#527"
.elif defined(BROKEN)
IGNORE= "is marked as broken: ${BROKEN}"
+IGNORE+=". For information on retrieving ports tree updates, see"
+IGNORE+="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook267.html#527"
.endif
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