Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:01:11 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Terry R. Friedrichsen" <bsd@hackbox.bunker-ranch.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, bsd@bunker-ranch.com Subject: Re: ports/126630: ports build of devel/gio-fam-backend fails Message-ID: <op.uf3i390r9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <200808181739.m7IHdsKZ047494@hackbox.bunker-ranch.org> References: <200808181739.m7IHdsKZ047494@hackbox.bunker-ranch.org>
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:39:54 -0500, Terry R. Friedrichsen <bsd@hackbox.bunker-ranch.org> wrote: > mezz wrote: > >> Learn to search in mailing list archive or/and google. > > Thank you very much for your comments. I searched the FreeBSD problem > reports and found no reference to this problem. I am now enlightened > that I should search the mailing list for problem reports rather than > the FreeBSD PRs. And the send-pr.html page doesn't warn me that I > should search the mailing list archives rather than the PRs before re- > porting a problem. > > In anticipation that I'll win the same caustic comment for my PR on > cairo vs. pixman, the same explanation applies. Done and closed. > Earlier, I did in fact report a problem in FreeBSD-questions rather > than sending a PR, and got no responses. So the mailing lists don't > appear to be an effective place to report problems, either. > > And in any case, you *can't* search the mailing list archives. As > this page says: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ > > "The archive search index was last rebuilt at Thursday, 08 Feb 2007 > 06:16:51 UTC. Any postings after that will not be found by a search." Insteresting... These need to be reword and tell users to visit http://www.freebsd.org/search/#mailinglists ... Search in freebsd-gnome (Gnome) should get you first result correct. > Quite useful, that. > > Now I know that FreeBSD is a volunteer effort, so I never utter a > single word of complaint about anything associated with it; I am > happy that it exists and that it works (and is organized) as well > as it is. > > But if you're going to insult me for not following unspecified (and > ultimately fruitless) procedures before sending a PR, *then* you're > going to get an earful from me about the problems involved in doing > so. > > > >> Update your glib20. > > Yes; as I pointed out in my PR, that's precisely the solution. That > wasn't at all obvious at the time, given that glib20 was already in- > stalled, nor was it easy to discover that something called "gio" is > a part of glib20. > > Learn to read the PR. 'Install the devel/glib20 port first.' It doesn't tell you if it's old or update glib20, so I am being more specific to point you to update your glib20. By default, the gio-fam-backend does install glib20 if glib20 does not exists. I will asking my team if I can split 20080323 part for glib20. > If the gio-fam-backend port depends on a particular version of glib20, > it should check for that and say something meaningful, like the cairo > port does for pixman. So the PR is, in fact, reporting a real problem > that should be fixed. There is no feature exists in LIB_DEPENDS. I don't know if anyone is work on it. Cheers, Mezz > Terry R. Friedrichsen > > bsd@bunker-ranch.com -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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