From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 13 22:47:11 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E70B316A417 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:47:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9570813C447 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:47:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so546102pyb.3 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:47:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uXLY1iNEjwDXBVZOoqrF7kYVQDQPeqorDiVMTST5NOA=; b=tKszT9rfOZeMQYcc92VDVzx+GyS+Zk4EHB1jMzfbb773zrHFsIGLE1XuCZ+8FtEsyvDHjVQSM3FIJXJRJBMI6YD2XAuC1TJjhhqJrHGPCXyx80V3VwMEDmPSAkeFwAFtpJOM5kSKUNjLxr96Qm4PIbZaOzamiKBwYP29/hrosNA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SltNTvV16LmCMjxaf03hn46epOytEs9irCdVeYpn/BIICach69C6YgieTx1toidNYiXQXfGX5Cho9Tddelte0kOat8d3DPzEThyViYa3kCpiXipebANY3AC4hDYZPHMFILG1A/9w1sb+ZJ/DsXsifAPOJp3mTGHfLTUuruoj6ZE= Received: by 10.65.250.11 with SMTP id c11mr5475966qbs.52.1197586030333; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:47:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.2.2? ( [67.85.89.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d2sm7409406qbc.2007.12.13.14.47.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:47:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4761B66C.8000006@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:47:08 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Birrell References: <475F7390.9090509@gmail.com> <1022BEDA-8641-4686-AB1A-3FE2D688F47F@FreeBSD.org> <475FAC1F.1010401@gmail.com> <19341C6C-BF3A-4DFD-B8DF-87F4E92B0335@FreeBSD.org> <0F330142-A3CA-4E6E-84BD-FDE55A8E3AEE@yahoo.com> <20071213111050.O6078@wonkity.com> <291C2604-2EDD-412E-9108-2ADD7D4D9F68@u.washington.edu> <47618F76.4080001@gmail.com> <20071213210646.GA52285@what-creek.com> <4761B3D7.2080308@gmail.com> <20071213224430.GA53373@what-creek.com> In-Reply-To: <20071213224430.GA53373@what-creek.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limitations of Ports System 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, 13 Dec 2007 22:47:12 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Birrell wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 05:36:07PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> I was not planning to skimp on the requirements at all but the >> test case is xorg... i.e. I will do my best to not compermise on >> features/requirements but xorg meets several criteria for being a >> good test (out of order building, alt. depends, large but >> seperatable DAG) > > But it all comes from one source and is released as one set. You > need to think about things that are released from different places > with different dependencies at different times. And then allow for > the lag of getting the FreeBSD part updated. Perl, python and other pre-reqs to xorg are not from the same source thus fit the requirement.... I should of been more specific by saying xorg+all pre-req ports. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHYbZszIOMjAek4JIRAueZAJ9zDRfMpYYNrXrik1VYFLvEXW86/QCfVqNo smhJVbQZqx269CJnoK2NMAQ= =Hf6H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----