From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Dec 16 14: 5:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A401637B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:05:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF89643EB2 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:05:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450362B67F; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:05:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A9F686A713B; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:05:50 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:05:50 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Marco Molteni Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two easy PR to close: deskutil/xwrits and astro/gpsdrive Message-ID: <20021216220550.GU50581@k7.mavetju> References: <20021216165255.35275.qmail@cobweb.example.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021216165255.35275.qmail@cobweb.example.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:52:55PM +0100, Marco Molteni wrote: > please have a look at the following update PRs and close them: > > UPDATE deskutil/xwrits > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/43890 > > MAINTAINER UPDATE astro/gpdrive > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/46273 We're currently in a ports-freeze, which means that only ports which aren't building can be updated. This is to point our focus to the list of problems with the ports not running on -current. Does it help? Yes and no. There are right now only 560 ports which don't build on -current, against 200 which don't build on -stable (statistics from last weekend and two months ago). The biggest problems are related to the new gcc which is more picky about C++ code and warnings in general and the new location of header-files. Solving these problems is a time-consuming and unsatisfactory[sp] task which should be done by the original authors of the software. And these things will happen faster once 5.0 is really available. I don't know until when the ports-freeze will last, it has been long enough for me. The pile of ports to update is growing and the backlog is getting bigger and bigger. And I know how these people feel right now... Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message