Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:21:18 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen@missouri.edu>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@FreeBSD.org>, "ports-committers@freebsd.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-ports-all@freebsd.org" <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-ports-head@freebsd.org" <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r405907 - head/Mk Message-ID: <56956E4E.7000605@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <56956CD3.1070302@missouri.edu> References: <201601121956.u0CJuDGY042099@repo.freebsd.org> <56955EC7.8040306@marino.st> <56956CD3.1070302@missouri.edu>
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On 1/12/2016 10:15 PM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote: > On 01/12/2016 02:15 PM, John Marino wrote: >> On 1/12/2016 8:56 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >>> Author: stephen >>> Date: Tue Jan 12 19:56:13 2016 >>> New Revision: 405907 >>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/405907 >>> >>> Log: >>> - Svn revision 405533 upgraded /math/octave to version 4.0.0. This version >>> of octave segfaults with FreeBSD. Many of the octave-forge-* ports don't >>> build, and those that build don't work. So they are all being marked >>> broken until it is fixed. >>> >> >> Why not revert 405533 instead (and set the epoch)? >> >> John >> >> > > > Because I don't maintain the math/octave port. > It seems if there was ever a reason to revert a port, this is it. There are over 100 ports dependent on octave, I would think they would have to be tested before upgrading octave (every time). Did you contact maho@? Maybe he should be the one to revert it, but somebody needs to. The situation is bad. John
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