From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 18 09:05:13 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 1A3B716A404 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 09:05:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jumper99@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD35443D46 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 09:05:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jumper99@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 May 2006 09:05:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO wsa096) [193.101.155.96] by mail.gmx.net (mp027) with SMTP; 18 May 2006 11:05:10 +0200 X-Authenticated: #682707 Message-ID: <015001c67a5a$2a43a780$609b65c1@vpe.de> From: "Helmut Schneider" To: "Jeremy Chadwick" References: <000301c679e7$a4c1ac00$0d7ca8c0@helmutlaptop> <446B7A2F.1070402@rogers.com> <010d01c67a51$6ea4edc0$609b65c1@vpe.de> <20060518082556.GA71088@pentarou.parodius.com> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:05:08 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 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 09:05:13 -0000 From: "Jeremy Chadwick" > 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.