From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 18 08:26:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org 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 6D70B16A40B for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 08:26:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx1.parodius.com (mx1.parodius.com [64.62.145.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD4243D72 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 08:25:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id ADAEB5D12; Thu, 18 May 2006 01:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 01:25:56 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Helmut Schneider Message-ID: <20060518082556.GA71088@pentarou.parodius.com> References: <000301c679e7$a4c1ac00$0d7ca8c0@helmutlaptop> <446B7A2F.1070402@rogers.com> <010d01c67a51$6ea4edc0$609b65c1@vpe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <010d01c67a51$6ea4edc0$609b65c1@vpe.de> X-PGP-Key: http://jdc.parodius.com/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Mike Jakubik Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: php5-5.1.4 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: Thu, 18 May 2006 08:26:00 -0000 On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:02:37AM +0200, Helmut Schneider wrote: > First of all I would like to thank you for your quick answer. I still do > not know which mailinglist exactly you refer to and I apologize that I do > not know what the hell a "pr database" is at all. Looking at > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/lang/php5/ (which I thought is > the *official* place-to-go) the port was *released* 10 days ago and I did > not bargain for that a broken port may resist there for that time without a > single comment that it is broken. The bottom line is this: the port is broken because the PHP authors are a bunch of jhonkas. So yes, you were right to mention here that the port appears broken. What you didn't check/know was that others (MANY others) had already chimed in with the same thing to freebsd-ports. Sometimes it does help to check the mailing list archives. I'm not flaming you, honestly -- it's just something to keep in mind for the future. :-) > Forgive my ignorance but maybe it is worth commenting such problems > directly at a central location (see link above) instead of expecting people > to search a hole bunch of mailling lists. Maybe some noobs like me could be > helpful for the community at that point As mentioned, there's an open PR (Problem Report) on the php5 port: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/97338 Once committed to the ports tree, it should solve the problem. You can query the PR database using this web form: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?query In the meantime/interim, I think someone (that means port committers at the top of the "managerial chain") should mark the port as BROKEN until ale@ gets to it (when/as he sees fit). Normally I wouldn't recommend this, but the number of people relying on the php5 port is gargantuan, and safe to say we'll continue to see mails about it here until 97338 is committed. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |