From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 13 18:46:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C4310656D1 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:46:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@mittelstaedt.us) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (unknown [IPv6:2607:fa80:40::6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 787C28FC0C for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:46:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.160.135] (130-229-212-206-wiban.onlinemac.com [206.212.229.130]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7DIk4ll026074 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:46:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@mittelstaedt.us) Message-ID: <4E46C66B.1040002@mittelstaedt.us> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:46:03 -0700 From: Ted Mittelstaedt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org References: <20110810060822.GZ60956@droso.net> <4E42E7F4.5040502@gmail.com> <201108111920.p7BJKGjc021859@higson.cam.lispworks.com> <4E44AEED.7070207@gmail.com> <4E45B36B.8050207@FreeBSD.org> <4e462f34.M0MwnBU6a9phTeTQ%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4e462f34.M0MwnBU6a9phTeTQ%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=4.5 tests=RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com Subject: Re: [ports-i386@freebsd.org: linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r181.34 failed on i386 9] X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:46:09 -0000 On 8/13/2011 1:00 AM, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >> On 08/11/2011 21:41, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: >>> I'm talking about stability here. Adobe silently shipped >>> another version and our port become unbuildable because >>> distfile wasn't available anymore. >> The correct answer to this problem is to update the affected >> ports. > > That certainly is the correct mid- and long-term solution to > any given occurence. > > It still leaves the port broken from the disappearance of the > previous distfile until the maintainer has time to update the > port. That is likely to be a not-insignificant length of time, > because we cannot reasonably expect port maintainers -- who are > usually volunteers -- to drop everything in order to immediately > fix this sort of problem. It never ceases to amaze me how quick non-maintainers are to volunteer maintainters time to drop everything and rebuild a port. Ted