Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 02:05:09 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47582 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201510160205.t9G259q1031186@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Fri Oct 16 02:05:09 2015 New Revision: 47582 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47582 Log: Add Ports on PowerPC report from danfe Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Fri Oct 16 00:39:04 2015 (r47581) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Fri Oct 16 02:05:09 2015 (r47582) @@ -1412,5 +1412,52 @@ </sponsor> </project> + <project cat='ports'> + <title>Ports on PowerPC</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Alexey</given> + <common>Dokuchaev</common> + </name> + <email>danfe@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>The Ports Collection typically receives less attention on + Tier-2 architectures than on Tier-1 architectures, although + several build-runs were performed at various points in the past, + and broken ports were marked as such at those times.</p> + + <p>Some of the Tier-2 platforms, such as PowerPC and ARM, + have improved considerably recently, both on &os;'s and the + compilers' sides, but as the tree is not rebuilt on the cluster + very often, it was suspected that many ports are marked BROKEN + while they in fact now build and run correctly.</p> + + <p>Over the past several weeks, 26 ports that were indeed + broken on at least PowerPC had been fixed, 58 ports that were + incorrectly marked as broken (left-overs from the old times) were + unmarked, and fewer than 40 ports still have issues requiring + further work. + </p> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>The Ports Collection could benefit a lot from more frequent sweeps + targetting Tier-2 systems.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Recent work on QEMU-backed emulators and the + much-anticipated cross-building of ports are essential pieces to + bring &os; packages on par with the base system's support, + architecture-wise.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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