From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 23:04:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA75316A400 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:04:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F5213C459 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:04:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 728FC1A4DA4; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:04:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BFA63518F2; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:04:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:04:45 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Scott Bennett Message-ID: <20070330230445.GA21207@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200703302247.l2UMlhr0001157@mp.cs.niu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200703302247.l2UMlhr0001157@mp.cs.niu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: working version of acroread7 for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:04:46 -0000 --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:47:43PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:57:06 -0400 Kris Kennaway > wrote: >=20 > >On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:52:49PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> I need a functioning version of acroread version 7 for my 6.1 sys= tem > >> "pkg_add -r acroread7" does not find a package. "portinstall acroread= 7" > >> fails initially on an error return from a brandelf command, as it shou= ld, > >> because the brandelf is being applied to a shell script rather than to= an > >> executable binary. > >> Does anyone on this list know where to find a version that will > >> install and run correctly? > > > >Instead, how about reporting the problem properly so that it can be > >fixed? :) > > > Well, that may happen, too, at some point. My interest at the prese= nt > time is to get a working version of acroread 7 ASAP, which is why I wrote= to > the list. Filing a problem report might get it fixed someday, but not ri= ght > away in all likelihood. Note that it's unlikely that someone will be able to magically tell you how to obtain a working port when you claim unspecified problems with the usual method ("just build it"). > Please note, as well, that it is difficult to know where to begin wh= en > reporting problems with ports, packages, or the ports and packages subsys= tem. > The ports and packages subsystem is a great idea, but in practice, it is = the > weakest part of the FreeBSD distribution. It is easily rendered partiall= y or > wholly useless by bugs in some of the ports' setups themselves (python 2.4 > under 6.1, ruby18 under 5.4, for examples). Many of the ports do not bui= ld > properly or at all. mplayer, for example, does not build under 6.1 becau= se > it hangs at a configuration screen that displays only part of the screen,= will > not accept any inputs, and can only be gotten out of by ctrl-C or some ot= her > terminating signal. If I could get mplayer to work, I'd be another step > closer to dumping Windows XP. I think these problems you are having are quite unusual (although note that 6.1 ceased being officially supported after 6.2 was released, so it is possible things have rotted somehow), so you really need to report them properly if you want to see improvement here. If you need help on how to report a bug, we have documentation about that. Kris --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGDZeNWry0BWjoQKURAlIvAKD29vY4XuTD6p2f8B+SCZs/I9fZkgCg6zSZ +GRtqRbUL5rBvilZkeMfuEc= =raLH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--