From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Oct 13 13:25:48 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E059D2F67 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:25:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E91F09C7 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:25:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-213-32.knology.net [216.186.213.32] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t9DDPjlb015706 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:25:46 -0500 Subject: Re: What happened to the paraview pkg ? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201510122139.t9CLdFpM017902@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> <561C3077.6000506@hiwaay.net> <561CFFA0.9080800@hiwaay.net> <561D043B.7020902@FreeBSD.org> From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <561D0659.6010105@hiwaay.net> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:31:15 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <561D043B.7020902@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:25:48 -0000 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.