Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 08:13:30 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Jean Milanez Melo <jmelo-lists@freebsdbrasil.com.br> Cc: linimon@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port security/hostsentry currently marked for deprecation Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403200804370.2270-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <20040320092531.M22152-100000@offset.freebsdbrasil.com.br>
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On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Jean Milanez Melo wrote: > I Dont have problems with this port. Whats the problem? What the initial post (quickly replaced) should have said instead of: > > deprecated because: (error in parsing Makefile) was: > > deprecated because: is missing runtime dependencies; see ports/62516 In other words, it will build and run only on systems that already have all the necessary prerequisites installed. But FreeBSD ports are supposed to do that work themselves, so that they may be installed on an entirely clean system and will work properly. The canonical way of testing this is to set up a port jail to watch the failure. Or, you can take a look at the error logs on http://bento.FreeBSD.org or the summary engine at http://portsmon.firepipe.net which will refer you back to them. If you find the port useful, we'd be happy to have you update it (via a followup to the PR) to save it from its fate. (portsmon, by the way, would also tell you that we have 2836 ports without maintainers, so we obviously could use all the help we can get. mcl
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