From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 29 11:39:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E41CC37B756 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:39:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12lc97-000CxC-00; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 20:39:17 +0200 Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 20:39:17 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: kudzu@tenebras.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Numerous broken ports Message-ID: <20000429203917.A49574@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <390B0B02.47368F2A@dnai.com> <20000429185756.A48372@mithrandr.moria.org> <390B16D2.38EB927D@dnai.com> <20000429192054.A49130@mithrandr.moria.org> <390B1C6D.690CA52B@dnai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <390B1C6D.690CA52B@dnai.com>; from kudzu@dnai.com on Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 10:31:25AM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat 2000-04-29 (10:31), Michael Sierchio wrote: > And FYI I've only been using BSD for twenty years... That's nice for you. That has little bearing on whether or not you need to send error messages to the mailing list, or whether you can feel free to insult the porters. > > Yes, sometimes ports don't work. If they don't work, you report it, > > with error messages, and they get fixed. > > Having done this in the recent past, I got some clueless responses > from ports maintainers like -- gee, it works for me... Actually, this does work for me. I found out why, and I can tell you that it's because my system had scsi.h and sys/scsiio.h left over from before. Ok, so do you suggest we mark it broken then, or do you have a fix? Now, what about the other ports? Your previous post, at least in the mailing list, seemed not to get any particularly stupid comments. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Alpha Geek, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message