From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 10:10:34 2003 Return-Path: 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 A356D37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webserver.get-linux.org (adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.161.78.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBCCC43F75 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:10:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org) Received: (qmail 11453 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Jul 2003 17:10:57 -0000 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:10:57 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman To: Leonardo Lazarte Message-ID: <20030725171057.GA11249@webserver> References: <20030725135522.G29917-100000@mx1.mat.unb.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030725135522.G29917-100000@mx1.mat.unb.br> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announce Broken Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:10:35 -0000 On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:00:07PM -0300 or thereabouts, Leonardo Lazarte wrote: > > As seen in several messages to this and other lists, the PORTS > mecanism has been broken. It only seems so because of the dependency on pkg_info -O. > > I have read about some patches and possible solutions, but I > could not find an easy way to overcome the problem. CVSup /usr/src, cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_info, make install clean. > > Shouldn't it be announced clearly, on the FreeBSD site, that > there is a problem with PORTS, perhaps pointing to some > temporary solution, until the problem is solved? NO, IMO that would be quite inappropriate. The fix is simple. (It *would* be nice if someone could change bsd.port.mk to only use pkg_info -O if ${OSRELDATE} >= 480000, however :-) > > I have used FreeBSD for a decade, and it is the first time > that I have to change the OS version due to problems broght > from the distributions. A decade? Nope. Now -- July 2003 1.0 -- November 1993 So no, there HASN'T been a decade of FreeBSD. (I'm sure there'll be a party in November :-) -- Josh > > Leonardo > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Leonardo Lazarte - LLazarte@mat.unb.br Vox. +55(61)349 4923 > Dep. de Matematica - Univ. de Brasilia Fax. +55(61)273 2737 ou 274 3910 > Nucleo de Estudos da Sociedade da Informacao http://www.socinfo.unb.br > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"