Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:05:08 +0200 From: "Helmut Schneider" <jumper99@gmx.de> To: "Jeremy Chadwick" <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: php5-5.1.4 Message-ID: <015001c67a5a$2a43a780$609b65c1@vpe.de> References: <000301c679e7$a4c1ac00$0d7ca8c0@helmutlaptop> <446B7A2F.1070402@rogers.com> <010d01c67a51$6ea4edc0$609b65c1@vpe.de> <20060518082556.GA71088@pentarou.parodius.com>
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From: "Jeremy Chadwick" <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> > 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. Thanks for clarifiying that point. > 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. :-) I will do so in future and I do not feel this discussion as a flame at all. >> 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. In spite of that may I ask what exactly the problem is? For me (personally and looking at the PR) it seems that just 3 lines in the distinfo are wrong taking 30 seconds to fix.
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