Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:23:52 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/portsnap Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <20050917222352.GM441@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <432C950C.5050301@freebsd.org> References: <200509171609.j8HG9tS9035379@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050917220320.GA36715@submonkey.net> <432C950C.5050301@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 03:13:32PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 04:09:55PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> >> Update to version 0.9.5. This is identical to 0.9.4 except for a fix
> >> which makes make_index not coredump when it encounters a circular
> >> dependency in the ports tree.
> >
> > That's wonderful, except it leaves me with a zero-length INDEX. The
> > core dump got me halfway through the audio/ category at least, and was
> > actually better in that respect.
> >
> > Any fix in the works?
>
> A few ports people are looking at this and trying to decide how best to
> fix the port in question.
That's great; I wasn't sure whether this commit was considered the end
of the matter, though I'll confess to having a mailbox containing a good
few weeks of unread ports@ mail.
> As a more long-term fix, I'm going to add extra checks on my portsnap build
> server to stop new INDEX files from being distributed until they are correct.
> Right now people get an INDEX built from the most recent tree on which "make
> describes" succeeded; once the current breakage ends, I'm going to change
> that to giving people an INDEX from the most recent tree where "make describes"
> succeeded _and_ produced a file which portsnap's make_index manages to turn
> into an INDEX without any errors.
That's ace; I really can't thank you enough for allowing me to offload
the vast majority of my ports based worries on you; $perciva{beverage}++
and no mistake :)
Ceri
--
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.)
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