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Date:      Thu, 28 May 2009 02:01:53 +0300
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_add errors
Message-ID:  <20090528020153.24341832@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <01307982@ipt.ru>
References:  <4A1D6DB8.40209@bsdforen.de> <01307982@ipt.ru>

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On Thu, 28 May 2009 01:20:17 +0400
Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> wrote:

 [ .. ]

> > My preference would be to rely on 'pkg_info -g', but that would
> > require all committers to run extensive checks before committing
> > changes to the ports tree. Miwi has always done this and more than
> > once revealed PLIST problems of my ports to me. But I wonder whether
> > it is really sensible to ask committers to test everything on a
> > Tinderbox (preferably on several platforms) before committing
> > changes to the ports tree. =20

We do encourage this. The "preferably on several platforms" is
problematic due to available resources we each have.=20

> Hm, ports with broken PLISTS are, well, broken. And should be fixed
> or marked BROKEN.

And they are. I'm actively marking them broken based on QAT. I can't do
it instantly since some people require patting on the head ...=20

> I was sure that the FreeBSD packaging cluster does not produce
> packages with broken plists (i.e. the package is not created). Is
> that wrong?

No, plist problems are hard errors.

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