Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:06:25 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to handle upgrade of libnotify when cups-client-1.4.8 is marked as broken Message-ID: <CADLo839%2B7cx2%2BzMLxbCG=FynXZ-Do44Zqfd_fz2Ab6abWBMOJQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110828173059.GT17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <4E5A48AC.6050201@eskk.nu> <20058.20743.791783.342355@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <BLU0-SMTP182102B9C96837517ECB6BB93150@phx.gbl> <20110828172651.GB277@magic.hamla.org> <20110828173059.GT17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On 28 August 2011 18:30, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 01:26:51PM -0400, Sahil Tandon wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 11:30:27 -0400, Carmel wrote: >> >> > My question is what changed? It worked before updating "libnotify". Is >> > "libnotify" the culprit or "GNUTLS" or something else and why didn't >> > anyone catch this problem sooner? >> >> The chain of dependencies during the libnotify update prompted the >> upgrade of cups. =A0The latter's OpenSSL interfaces are explicitly >> thread-safe, which GNU TLS is not. >> >> > There appears to be a lot of material released lately that is either >> > broken or requiring a considerable amount of manual intervention. >> > Perhaps a moratorium (port freeze) should be considered until all of >> > the outstanding problems have been corrected. >> >> We are sorry for the inconvenience which is surely frustrating, but >> freezing the tree because of this does not seem appropriate. > > Might be, completely ignoring the option 'use gnutls' in cups ports, > until it can be made working, will change everybody life to be easier. I can see why that might be appealing, but I'd be less than impressed if I'd selected WITH_TLS and found the option silently ignored. Perhaps the IGNORE message could be clarified... Chris
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