From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 22 19:32:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA5B106566B for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 19:32:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.221.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093EF8FC14 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 19:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk11 with SMTP id 11so3681890qyk.13 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:32:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=2x58sxhY9OEoTtkdhidqM8tioz9hx6udtvXxrp0+9X8=; b=Hbz7JH2Z0xyUJdSW7sjoYiDVe7d4kBYoahJ1n7/cs+o4Uk4XLJUnuZxeVUQzeKiZCC RlYmT6AoLm/iyXONS89HKQI7IrgHV7WJ4mIgCGTZBV+9XXfQ9pByJiXePIk0eZRpK90Z AmXOzJgcX6qHzKuqK+GQXPC1qfnyCZcIJG8FQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=LgM16nDY7f7FIlPNvGKyTuCI96nDCMCX8AxG/S3Go6ndUd0f1IYkPW0oDA1EE2XStK Kp08GYnwDgvS8dHlhiTGFi3SJHFyrpQiLWFt3Ks2FUHc6qZ8XVIEmdlxk1Ai888OTjVc PoNZ+GG5q2ycpXgVdT1CnNkrVUBGo9KVo9pHQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.116.144 with SMTP id m16mr2118078qaq.156.1274556733257; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.190.83 with HTTP; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:32:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BF7D82A.40507@ispras.ru> References: <4BF7C5EC.20500@ispras.ru> <20100522123006.GS83316@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <4BF7D82A.40507@ispras.ru> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:32:13 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Andrey Ponomarenko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Kostik Belousov , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new upstream tracker (linuxtesting.org) 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: Sat, 22 May 2010 19:32:14 -0000 On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > On 05/22/2010 04:30 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote: >> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:54:20PM +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: >> >>> Hello, I'm from ISPRAS and we have created an experimental system for >>> monitoring and analyzing of upstream libraries development. It may be >>> helpful for analyzing risks of updating one of the distribution >>> components (shared libraries). The web page of upstream-tracker is: >>> http://linuxtesting.org/upstream-tracker/ >>> It now includes ABI changes analysis and API shallow test results for >>> several versions of 60 popular open source libraries. >>> Any bugs or feature requests are welcome. Thanks. >>> >> WOW. Can you, please, share the setup of the tracker ? >> > > The tool itself is very young and is not well documented yet. Although > the first version has been recently released under dual GNU GPL and LGPL > licenses: > http://ispras.linuxfoundation.org/index.php/Upstream_Tracker > We are not recommended to use this version of the tool by yourself. Very > soon we will release 1.1 version containing a lot of bug fixes and new > features. Unfortunately this could only be added to the base system as a port today as it depends on perl (something that was tossed from the base system many moons ago because of cross-building issues). I'll poke around at the software and port it to FreeBSD because it looks interesting though and does provide a relatively simple interface for digesting test results. >> It would be amazingly interesting if you added FreeBSD base system >> libraries to the tracker. > > Provide, please, the list of necessary libraries. > >> It would be extremely interesting and >> useful for us to see changes among releases and tips of the >> stable and head branches. Thanks, -Garrett