Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:44:12 -0700 From: "Brian W." <brian@brianwhalen.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: P5-FuzzyOcr port Message-ID: <CADV=szVrwWDOMkNf0Ge=ibQ9D9KJY5FNUtyzw2XJ9CoCHDFLdQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FD8403D.7080808@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <CADV=szXDWEWNb%2B9daOoZuE0zX=GAZi_L6SjmPAZj8PCkfB3uqA@mail.gmail.com> <4FD8403D.7080808@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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I was migrating from v7 to v8 when I saw this a few nights ago. The upgrade was going speedily well till I hit that. Like I said I was able to get through it by building the port. On Jun 13, 2012 12:25 AM, "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 13/06/2012 07:17, Brian W. wrote: > > Pkg_add -r can't find a package for this; I presume this is deliberate > > because of the unmaintained status of fuzzyocr? > > Not directly. As many pkgs as possible are built from ports, > irrespective of who the maintainers are. An unmaintained port is > however less likely to have any issues attended to promptly. > > If you want to see exactly why no pkg exists, use portsmon: > > > http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=mail&portname=p5-FuzzyOcr > > and the reason is that the graphics/giflib port -- one of the > dependencies -- failed to work properly. On 9.0-RELEASE it shows the > problem is to do with XML validation, and there's an open PR about that > which is assigned to the graphics/giflib maintainer. There should be a > fix fairly soon. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW > > > >
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