From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Mar 25 23:51:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mgw-x3.nokia.com (mgw-x3.nokia.com [131.228.20.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6593437B41B for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 23:51:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from esvir01nok.ntc.nokia.com (esvir01nokt.ntc.nokia.com [172.21.143.33]) by mgw-x3.nokia.com (Switch-2.2.1/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id g2Q7qMA29062 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:52:22 +0200 (EET) Received: from esebh003.NOE.Nokia.com (unverified) by esvir01nok.ntc.nokia.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.5) with ESMTP id for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:51:31 +0200 Received: from esebe015.NOE.Nokia.com ([172.21.138.54]) by esebh003.NOE.Nokia.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.3779); Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:51:30 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: FreeBSD Port: cvsd-0.9.6 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:51:30 +0200 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: FreeBSD Port: cvsd-0.9.6 Thread-Index: AcHUmxi1Gc3drDtDEdanKwDQt46tRw== From: To: Cc: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Mar 2002 07:51:30.0244 (UTC) FILETIME=[0A642840:01C1D49B] Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I recently installed the port, but I must admit I found it a bit lacking = because: - it should (at least optionally) build a static version of cvs to avoid = problems with libs (for example, ld-elf.so.1 was not found, and manually = fixing the dynamic library issues is a pain in the ass) - the cvsd-buildroot script should chown stuff to the cvsd user and = preferably init the repository (I admit this is more the author's than = porter's fault, but something that should be done anyway) - IIRC, cvsd-buildroot didn't succeed in making a dev/null in the jail = (propably tried to do it the Linux way) - the cvsd.sh startup script referred to a Debian Linux specific prog, = start-stop-daemon, and thus didn't work at all until I modified it - references to README shoud preferably mention it's location While I'm extremely thankful for every single port there is, I simply = don't think this port currently meets the high standards I have learnt = to expect from ports. I hope my whining is considered constructive = criticism and the issues addressed. :) Thanks. Best regards, Jani Kaarela A spoiled FreeBSD user To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message