Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 15:03:21 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Wade Majors <wade@ezri.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 7000 ports! Message-ID: <20020526150321.B82053@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020526090500.A32725@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>; from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu on Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:05:00AM -0700 References: <200205251133.g4PBXta47948@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020525052645.A50918@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020525151649.68ec5d69.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20020525135436.A59827@xor.obsecurity.org> <3CF07E81.6040508@ezri.org> <20020526090500.A32725@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:05:00AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 02:19:45AM -0400, Wade Majors wrote: > > >>What counts is how many percent > > >>of ported applications are compiling and working under BSD. > > > > > Over 90% at last count. > > > > A quick find/grep says that 218 Makefiles contain "^BROKEN". So that's > > 96% of the 7001 ports. Assuming matainers are staying on top of the > > BROKEN tag, at least. Doesn't seem too bad to me. > > > > Well, 3 out of 4 ports that I tried to install yesterday > failed during the build (timidity, portupgrade, and mplayer). > So, your 96% is somewhat optimistic for very current > FreeBSD-current. Yes, -current is an entirely different beast. There have been at least half a dozen changes which have broken significant numbers of ports; we need a lot more people (including port maintainers!) to work on fixing them. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE88VupWry0BWjoQKURArpzAKCs+Vg6L/O9gscadh8wp8nu93brbgCdFFUQ wNu5tmwYxMQndkaKL5t8CKo= =NHjl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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