Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:31:15 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happened to the paraview pkg ? Message-ID: <561D0659.6010105@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <561D043B.7020902@FreeBSD.org> References: <201510122139.t9CLdFpM017902@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> <561C3077.6000506@hiwaay.net> <E021961B-B467-456F-BBD1-D7DD3A0A1C35@pingpong.net> <561CFFA0.9080800@hiwaay.net> <561D043B.7020902@FreeBSD.org>
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On 10/13/15 08:22, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 2015/10/13 13:55, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> The pkg is no longer available as of yesterday. It was unceremoniously
>> de-installed during the 'pkg upgrade -y', w/ no reasons given. I still
>> have it in my ports tree, but I usually use pkg exclusively for package
>> maintanance, with the solitary exception of flash support. I could
>> obviously recreate paraview from the ports tree, but I was curious why
>> it got deleted from the pkg-repo.
> This usually just means the package failed to build in the latest pkg
> build run. This can be for all sorts of reasons, including stuff like a
> dependency failing to build.
>
> Your best bet is to wait for a couple of hours or days until the ports
> get updated (and the next build run gets published if you're using
> generic packages) and try again. Unless you'ld like to try digging into
> the reasons why paraview didn't get built and submit a fix, which you
> would be most welcome to have a go at. (Beware: therein starts the
> slippery slope towards getting a commit bit...)
>
> Of course, if you're running your own poudriere, and the build is
> failing there but not on the FreeBSD pkg cluster, then you're going to
> need to work out what's wrong yourself. Frequently this comes down to
> some customized set of options not behaving properly, and you can work
> around it by changing options settings.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
Well, speak of the devil, I just tried a 'pkg install -y paraview' & it
worked (failed yesterday), *Booooyah* !!!! I kinda figured that (some
build glitch) might be the problem, but wasn't sure, hence the squawking
..... Thanks again.
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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