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Date:      Sat, 29 Apr 2000 18:57:56 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        kudzu@tenebras.com
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Numerous broken ports
Message-ID:  <20000429185756.A48372@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <390B0B02.47368F2A@dnai.com>; from kudzu@dnai.com on Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:17:06AM -0700
References:  <390B0B02.47368F2A@dnai.com>

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On Sat 2000-04-29 (09:17), Michael Sierchio wrote:
> It seems to me that you shouldn't be including
> ports in the 4.0 tree unless you've at least 
> verified that they compile, or maybe even run.

It seems to me that you should be a bit more verbose, and maybe tell
people what the problems are, maybe with error messages and other useful
stuff that might actually help to fix your problem.

> I have now run into a dozen that don't even build.

Maybe it's a problem on your system, and not with ports in general.
Maybe a copy of those error messages will help.

> WTF aren't you even checking this shit?

They are checked.  Every day, a script builds every port on FreeBSD, and
makes available the error messages should they fail.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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