From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 6 22:10:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570061065670 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 22:10:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@foster.cc) Received: from mail.bitpusher.com (mail.bitpusher.com [208.75.56.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9108FC17 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 22:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.2.1.105] (dsl254-013-253.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.253]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mail.bitpusher.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F3224C059 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BBBB14C.5030101@foster.cc> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:10:20 -0700 From: Mark Foster User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100222 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4BBB9C2B.4070804@csub.edu> In-Reply-To: <4BBB9C2B.4070804@csub.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: sysutils/puppet: disabling freebsd ports package provider X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:10:23 -0000 On 04/06/2010 01:40 PM, Russell Jackson wrote: > Is there any objection to the ports provider being disabled on FreeBSD > systems since it mostly just causes puppet to hang anyway? I've had no > luck in fixing it. The problem is that portupgrade and script don't > interact well when running non-interactively. > > I've been running it this way in a local port, and I'm thinking of > disabling it in the official port as well. I'd post a patch for > upstream as well. If there are no objections, I'll submit a PR for the > change by the end of the week. > > Thanks, Has this broken behavior been confirmed by anyone else? I'd like to see the ports provider fixed, if possible. Is portmaster a more suitable back-end? -- I hate racists. Mark D. Foster http://mark.foster.cc/ | http://www.freegeekseattle.org/