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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: Port marked as broken
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:55:48PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I just did a "cvsup" and a "pkg_version -v" to see that one of my port is
> outdated.
> 
>  
> 
> pecl-memcache-2.1.0                 <   needs updating (port has 2.1.2)
> 
>  
> 
> When I tried to "portupgrade -a" I got a message saying "pecl-memcache-2.1.2
> is marked as broken: Configure fails."
> 
>  
> 
> I though something was broken on my system so I went to
> /usr/ports/databases/pecl-memcache/ and did a "make deinstall" followed by a
> "make clean" and a "make"
> 
>  
> 
> I get the same error message saying:
> 
> ===>  pecl-memcache-2.1.2 is marked as broken: Configure fails.
> 
> *** Error code 1
> 
>  
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/databases/pecl-memcache.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> I did some research and found that tag "broken" is in the cvs so I guess the
> developer set it that way.
> 
>  
> 
> 2 questions:
> 
>  
> 
> 1- How come a broken port is in the cvs ? Shouldn't the developer do a
> rollback or something if something fails ?

They should *fix* it, but they've not done so yet.  Email the
maintainer to ask about their plans for fixing it.

> 2- Is there a way to reinstall an older version hoping to get the
> functionality back (since I deinstalled :-()

You can use CVS or (maybe) the portdowngrade port.

Kris