Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 23:01:27 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> To: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Dixit port bad management Message-ID: <20100503230127.58979b9f@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <4BDF1F8D.4090401@gmail.com> References: <COL105-W64A7586A8A88F0FC9457A9C8F10@phx.gbl> <v2u7d6fde3d1005031200y5e5243b5yb3b566d2a26a1b21@mail.gmail.com> <4BDF1F8D.4090401@gmail.com>
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--Sig_/EkbVQZ2e4sp1S34yHnA+UkV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 03 May 2010 21:10:05 +0200 Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03-05-2010 21:00, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Tim A <cxtim@live.com> wrote: > >> > >> 1) I don't understand why the Textproc/Dixit port is so badly > >> managed. The program itself is at version 10.4, while your > >> unprofessional port still stays at version 1.0.1, claiming that > >> the GCC 4.2 compilation is broken. > >> > >> 2) I don't understand either why you don't use Dixit sourceforge > >> RSS feeds to know when a new version is available. > >> > >> 3) I don't understand how your Dixit port points to files which > >> don't exist anymore. > >> > >> 4) I don't understand the suprematism attitude of the maintainers > >> in charge, who don't give a penny on the programs they are suppose > >> to maintain. They are only interested in the statistics generated > >> by their unprofessional ports, but not in their quality. > >=20 > > Tim, > >=20 > > Here's a start. I'll leave it as an exercise for you to fix the rest > > of the bits; I at least got you past the fun sites change in the > > extract part, but the path for ${_DB_D} with what's setup in the > > Makefile differs from reality (the current path is: > > ${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/project/dixit/dixit_qdb/dixit.qdb.tar.bz2 , not > > ${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/project/dixit/dixit/10.4/dixit.qdb.tar.bz2 ); > > you probably don't want to pull the potentially out-of-sync zip > > file from ftp*.freebsd.org , especially because we can decompress a > > tarball natively without installing archivers/unzip . > >=20 > > I've trimmed out a lot of the fud, but you'll probably have to do > > some hacking to get the project to work with QT3 or QT4 (hopefully > > the latter). > >=20 > > The porter's handbook [1] is your guide as well as make(1) [2]. > >=20 > > After that, run `make makesum all install ' . Submit a PR with the > > diffs for all of the files if it works to your liking. > >=20 > Before running 'make install', run 'port test' to see if the port is > nicely formatted and that the package contents is correct, meaning it > doesn't leave files behind on uninstall or tries to uninstall files > which don't exist. Blah, don't loose the time on this. You won't get any PR anyway. I committed an update to the port, which almost works in this version (except the menus, and that might be a question of fonts/locale). Then tomorrow I'll nicely drop maintainership and schedule it for deletion, no body being interested in it and me being so unprofessional. Damn, there goes my record! --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> itetcu@FreeBSD.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B --Sig_/EkbVQZ2e4sp1S34yHnA+UkV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkvfK5gACgkQJ7GIuiH/oeUPvACfam6rbtRaSTWFnuuMz22RRfFV mRkAniH4U2wBBpWLrsLcfhM9rRRQ+HVi =ThQi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/EkbVQZ2e4sp1S34yHnA+UkV--
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