From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 2 10:47:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B0B37B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 10:47:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-21.mail.nl.demon.net (post-21.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C80BA43FAF for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 10:47:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-21.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18pYUl-0008zY-00 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 18:47:31 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 3DB98C7D7 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:47:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id D99C0C63F for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:47:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 4A0022256F; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:47:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:47:19 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: a simple question about ports Message-ID: <20030302184719.GC47148@willow.raggedclown.intra> References: <20030302181055.GA47148@willow.raggedclown.intra> <15970.20433.657226.491238@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15970.20433.657226.491238@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <20030302181055.GA47148@willow.raggedclown.intra>, Cliff Sarginson typed: > > Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? > > Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they > compiled file on the committers box. > And aye there's the rub. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message