From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 04:30:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EEE4106566C for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:30:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us) Received: from outbound-mail-01.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-01.bluehost.com [69.89.21.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3652D8FC1D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 28601 invoked by uid 0); 22 Mar 2010 04:30:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box264.bluehost.com) (69.89.31.64) by cpoproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 22 Mar 2010 04:30:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=joseph-a-nagy-jr.us; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:X-Enigmail-Version:Content-Type:X-Identified-User; b=H4aeUbpTWxa1M4X277aXoJUUt/07a0prlnrQW0dFKOS3yk7KRPn1XtEHTt886mHd+m2LNDGDTVDh+sgzKmP3J/ex5UvHWRG2Vuk4J3g69WYLrzuOhZU4lto5jO7KUClP; Received: from [206.74.86.236] (helo=[192.168.1.105]) by box264.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtZHm-00037G-At; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:30:42 -0600 Message-ID: <4BA6F266.4060601@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:30:30 -0500 From: Programmer In Training User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100203 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lowell Gilbert References: <4BA582CF.2020300@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <44wrx5re05.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <44wrx5re05.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigFF2BA2C2AD6CDB9C9C2D2D88" X-Identified-User: {2250:box264.bluehost.com:ameliora:joseph-a-nagy-jr.us} {sentby:smtp auth 206.74.86.236 authed with pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us} Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Problem With GCompris X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:30:43 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigFF2BA2C2AD6CDB9C9C2D2D88 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/21/10 08:38, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Programmer In Training writes: >=20 >> Since this isn't listed at http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portserrs.py an= d >> I haven't a clue (yet, I know I've seen how, just can't remember) how = to >> make a report about a port error, I'm posting to this list and >> cross-posting to the listed maintainer for this port. >=20 > "man send-pr" Thanks. >=20 >> I'm attempting to install gcompris from ports. Version in ports is >> 8.4.12_3. It won't fetch from the server so I went to download it and >> could not find /that/ version but I did find 8.4.13 so I went ahead an= d >> put it in distfiles to see if it would work (it didn't). >=20 > 8.4.12 is still available from the FreeBSD servers, so the current port= > builds fine for me. I hate manually browsing the FreeBSD ftp servers. It takes FOREVER to loa= d. > I tried 8.4.13, and the only problem seems to be the Makefile.in patch,= > which needs to be adapted for whatever changed upstream. [You can buil= d > by just deleting the patch, but permissions and install locations won't= > be right, and I don't think it will work properly. I'll keep that in mind. >> If I understand this correctly, there is a freeze on ports. Might I kn= ow >> if 8.4.13 (or even better, the most recent version) will be available >> after the freeze? >=20 > The odds are always better if you supply a patch... Right now I write shell scripts for myself and >> Or is this facing the same problem as Java, lack of programmers >> dedicated to it? >> >> If so, I'll explore options to fixing that. >=20 > It's not quite trivial (often all you need to update a port is to chang= e > the makefile to point to the new version and update the checksums), but= > it doesn't look difficult. I did that and it died on being patched. The patch is there for a reason, I'm not competent enough to know how all to make the changes needed to be able to keep the patch and install the next point release. There are other options I can explore, though (such as being patient and getting it from ftp.freebsd.org (which I think the make file should fall back to if the main source isn't available)). --=20 Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. 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