From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 17 22:23:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87AD816A41F; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:23:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif2-3-1-cust208.cdif.cable.ntl.com [82.31.78.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6E243D46; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:23:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.52 (FreeBSD)) id 1EGl69-000241-0P; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:23:53 +0100 Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:23:52 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Colin Percival Message-ID: <20050917222352.GM441@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Colin Percival , ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200509171609.j8HG9tS9035379@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050917220320.GA36715@submonkey.net> <432C950C.5050301@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WkHPBKJ2pKcVUM5H" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <432C950C.5050301@freebsd.org> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: Ceri Davies Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/portsnap Makefile distinfo X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:23:54 -0000 --WkHPBKJ2pKcVUM5H Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > Any fix in the works? >=20 > 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 bui= ld > server to stop new INDEX files from being distributed until they are corr= ect. > Right now people get an INDEX built from the most recent tree on which "m= ake > 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 desc= ribes" > succeeded _and_ produced a file which portsnap's make_index manages to tu= rn > 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 --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --WkHPBKJ2pKcVUM5H Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDLJd4ocfcwTS3JF8RAgShAJoCDTWo/0lZbb9C/wi0ZVweA9buggCgnpTe uacmdMJwn1tT5IBLym6BERo= =tBnD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WkHPBKJ2pKcVUM5H--