Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 02:39:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to report bugs in ports? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008190222460.28462-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com>
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I've found a number of errors in different ports lately and was wondering what the best method for reporting them was. Can anyone give me a pointer on this? Specifically, I've found the following bugs and configuration issues. - mod_php3 can't compile properly if IMAP support is enabled. It seems to be choking on the new c-client system. Specifically, the c-client code is now in its own port and this is a dependency. It used to be dependent upon imap-uw and apparently the change wasn't handled in sync with each other. - mod_php3 and mod_php4 both insert their AddModule and LoadModule lines in apache.conf inside the <IfDefine SSL> ... </IfDefine> section that mod_ssl is in. This occurs when doing a "make install" in either mod_php3 or mod_php4 after installing the apache13-modssl port. - Cyrus is really hosed for a really dumb reason. This might just be ignorance on my part, but I really think that the following two lines need to be in the /usr/local/etc/imapd.conf file: sasl_pwcheck_method: pwcheck sasl_passwd_check: pwcheck Until I did this, Cyrus would not work. This was after _hours_ of hunting through every resource that I could think of. One of these two lines was on a Linux HOWTO on the web and the other was in the man page, but the pwcheck option was not listed anywhere that I looked. I actually guessed on that one. While this might be something that the administrator is supposed to pick for them-self, it would be nice if they even knew that those lines existed, let alone are important. - cyrus-sasl, the authentication layer for Cyrus 1.6.x, won't compile without "NO_CHECKSUM=yes". For all I know, this was a bad idea, but the three accounts that I've tested can authenticate now, so I'm better off than I was before. :) - imap-uw will not compile unless I "make NO_CHECKSUM=yes" These are all against a system that was CVSup-ed just last week from a CD-ROM installed 4.0-RELEASE to 4.1-Stable. I CVSup-ed the /usr/src tree, made a new world (I love that phrase ;> ), and CVSup-ed the /usr/ports tree. No ports other than the cvsup-bin package were installed before CVSupping. I hope that this helps. If anyone knows where I should send this list, please let me know. I love the reliability of FreeBSD and its ports collections and have managed to make FreeBSD a corner stone of the network at my job. I've even convinced our computer science teacher to discard CodeWarrior for a mix of FreeBSD and some ports with telnet on all of our workstations. (I'm the network admin for a public school district in New York.) The least that I can do to re-pay the project is report some things that I think might be bugs. Thanks, Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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