From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 2 11:42:35 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 73FE237B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 11:42:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0404A43FB1 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 11:42:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1047066152.3863c2@mired.org) Received: (qmail 98585 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2003 19:42:32 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 2 Mar 2003 19:42:32 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15970.24231.528901.125737@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:42:31 -0600 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: a simple question about ports In-Reply-To: <20030302184719.GC47148@willow.raggedclown.intra> References: <20030302181055.GA47148@willow.raggedclown.intra> <15970.20433.657226.491238@guru.mired.org> <20030302184719.GC47148@willow.raggedclown.intra> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.70 (Pensive) 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 In <20030302184719.GC47148@willow.raggedclown.intra>, Cliff Sarginson typed: > 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 fine on the committers box. > And aye there's the rub. I've found that most maintainers are willing to try and fix ports that don't compile in your environment. You can't expect a bug to be fixed unless you report it to someone who can fix it. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message