From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 18 19:01:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E0AF1065691 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:01:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao104.cox.net (eastrmmtao104.cox.net [68.230.240.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D22D8FC12 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:01:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao104.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20080818190104.VOMV2096.eastrmmtao104.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:01:04 -0400 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id 3v131a00D4iy4EG02v13ju; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:01:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:01:11 -0500 To: "Terry R. Friedrichsen" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200808181739.m7IHdsKZ047494@hackbox.bunker-ranch.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200808181739.m7IHdsKZ047494@hackbox.bunker-ranch.org> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.51 (Linux) Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, bsd@bunker-ranch.com Subject: Re: ports/126630: ports build of devel/gio-fam-backend fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:01:05 -0000 On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:39:54 -0500, Terry R. Friedrichsen 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