From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 25 02:10:49 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73385B6C for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Joel.Sherrill@OARcorp.com) Received: from OARmail.OARCORP.com (oarmail.oarcorp.com [67.63.146.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2D61E2 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.14] (24.96.88.41) by OARmail.OARCORP.com (192.168.2.2) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.255.0; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:09:37 -0500 Message-ID: <514FB1DB.60608@oarcorp.com> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:09:31 -0500 From: Joel Sherrill User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eitan Adler Subject: Re: Could you remove the *-rtems-* ports? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "ports@FreeBSD.org" , "Rempel, Cynthia" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:10:49 -0000 On 3/24/2013 3:19 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 24 March 2013 11:34, Rempel, Cynthia wrote: >> Hi FreeBSD Ports Maintainer, >> >> Could you remove the *-rtems-* ports? They fail to build (the user has to change to bash to build them), and once built they don't build RTEMS. There are additional issues stated below. > I'm following up and will act as needed. Thanks for the heads up. > Just to be prudent. These appear to be being updated which hints that someone cares about them. It would be good to know why they are updating them. Are they actually using RTEMS or just doing it to them up to date. But there are some general issues: + the official tools use CPU-rtemsVERSION as the target where VERSION is 4.10, 4.11, etc to indicate the major RTEMS version. We have included the VERSION component for a decade. + The particular set of tool versions and patches do not correspond to anything the RTEMS Project considers a "set". We are trying to separate tool version and patch management from packaging. If the person who maintains these wants to work with us so the ports collection follows the recommended naming, versions, patches, etc., we would be very grateful. Otherwise, they are just wrong and that's not good. -- Joel Sherrill, Ph.D. Director of Research & Development joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com On-Line Applications Research Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS Huntsville AL 35805 Support Available (256) 722-9985