Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 22:38:32 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Jason Helfman <jgh@freebsd.org> Cc: John Jones <jnbek1972@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Ports List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Alex Stangl <alex@stangl.us> Subject: Re: www/geneweb-5.02 Outdated, Won't Compile. Message-ID: <CAN6yY1uASDxG0vgoj44TedCe6vuT2nAfphm_L3rhzoLvArPa0A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAMuy=%2BiK5EeMuqBJFs1zEES4oSD%2BxDHW2kx3E9cX8zeNTLY4Pg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHpjcgc0mvsgp2907p=4X9w6Gbdcd%2BTy2yTmfiG7Xs02rPJ9EA@mail.gmail.com> <20130103024805.GA49137@scout.stangl.us> <CAMuy=%2BiK5EeMuqBJFs1zEES4oSD%2BxDHW2kx3E9cX8zeNTLY4Pg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Jason Helfman <jgh@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Alex Stangl <alex@stangl.us> wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 08:05:58PM -0700, John Jones wrote: >> > To whom it may concern: >> > The port www/geneweb is severely out of date, the up to date version is >> > 6.06 and has been actively maintained over the last several months with >> the >> > latest release being a few days ago. >> > http://opensource.geneanet.org/projects/geneweb/wiki/En_home >> > The current port is marked: BROKEN and will not build. the 6.06 version >> > does build but requires the ocaml-camlp5 and ocaml-lablgtk2 ports to >> > build/run. Please update the geneweb port to reflect this new version and >> > please provide an rc script for startup on boot. >> >> Hi John, >> >> I made a similar post about a month ago, and then took over geneweb port >> maintainance to fix the breakage. I submitted an update PR a month ago: >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=174068&cat= >> however it's not been acted upon. I emailed a couple folks, but was >> told I need to be patient, that some committer will eventually pick >> it up. >> >> The "system" seems broken in that there is this huge backlog of >> PRs that get handled in seemingly random order. Allowing port >> maintainers to perform commits to their own ports seems a sensible fix, >> and something that svn is capable of. >> >> My PR 174068 was to update geneweb to 6.05 since 6.06 was not yet out. >> I included an rc script for startup, but I did not see any dependency >> upon ocaml-lablgtk2. Can you point out to me where that dependency comes >> from? Something new in 6.06, perhaps? Can you take a look at the patch >> included at the above URL and let me know what you think? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Alex >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > Hi John, > > Thanks very much for filing the report, but it is possible that it hasn't > been worked on > at this point due to the patch not being attached properly. I would suggest > a follow-up > to the problem report you original had posted with the patch attached as a > text file. It > appears the original patch was posted as a compressed archive. I should also point out that lots of committers are very busy with the massive audit affort after last year's security incident. It'sunfortunate, but limited people are available and a huge amount of work is involved. Note that index building only restarted today and, then, only by using a non-FreeBSD.org system to do it. I don't know that this is the reason, but I do suspect it on all of the things that are not running or renning very slowly. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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