From owner-freebsd-ports Tue May 15 0:27: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dell.dannyland.org (dell.dannyland.org [64.81.36.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1EEE37B424 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 00:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: by dell.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 208525BFE; Tue, 15 May 2001 00:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:26:26 -0700 From: dannyman To: Terry Lambert Cc: Kris Kennaway , Neil Blakey-Milner , Brad Knowles , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert , Joseph Mallett Subject: Re: How to tell ports to work on FreeBSD 3.x Message-ID: <20010515002626.H58926@dell.dannyland.org> References: <20010509140838.C17000@dell.dannyland.org> <200105100026.RAA04754@usr06.primenet.com> <20010509180154.E17000@dell.dannyland.org> <20010510143702.A84503@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <20010513140646.B63072@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010513182210.G58926@dell.dannyland.org> <3B00D8D4.CBF6050F@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3B00D8D4.CBF6050F@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:20:52AM -0700 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:20:52AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: [...] > If you were to build all of them, and just mark the ones > that didn't work as being broken, that would be a heck of > a lot better "support" for 3.x. > > Realize that you will probably need to clean out /usr/local > on the machine you use for this, and be prepared to xfer > about 400M during the whole process (into /ports/distfiles); > incrementally, you'll have to reclean /usr/local, so that > you don't get any dependencies satisfied by side effect. > When Satoshi builds the packages, he uses a cluster of 8 > machines, and cleans out /usr/local after each build to > ensure against accidental success. > > It really is a lot of work to support ports for old 3.x > systems properly... Hrmmm. What's this about marking things broken? For my purposes, it is enough to sucker ports in to re-compiling, say, Postfix on occasion. Now if there were some kinky way I could get ports working for 3.5-RELEASE or something for the user community, by sparing up a cluster of machines, a wacky home-made script or two, and some company bandwidth, that might be just the jolt of insanity I need to punctuate the Perl scripts I have to write. :) (Augh, should not read e-mail late at night or I will volunteer for silly duty.) -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message