Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 18:29:06 +0200 From: Alphons van Werven <freebsd@skysmurf.nl> To: FreeBSD ports mailing list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Fwd: Re: Jive prejudices Message-ID: <20161023162906.GB66792@spectrum.skysmurf.nl>
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--aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Louis Epstein wrote: > In any event,portmaster -a -i updates now abort because misc/jive is > detected on my system. >=20 > This goes beyond "We will no longer provide this application" to > "we will no longer let you upgrade your applications as long as you > have this one installed". To be fair, I strongly doubt this is deliberate policy. Portmaster itself is a port too. When pkg(7) hit the streets and other sweeping changes were made to the ports infrastructure, Portmaster had to be updated and that might still be an ongoing process. In any case, Port- master needs *some* way of dealing with broken(*) ports and I can imagine that this can get tricky when dependencies are involved. From the looks of it, Portmaster just takes the easy way out and simply bails completely when it encounters a broken port. However, wouldn't using the option "-x misc/jive" help for the time being? Jive *will* be kept available through alternative means in a way that Portmaster should be able to handle too. > You really need to have a hands-off policy on what software people use. To that I couldn't agree more. Fonz Ad (*): Here I mean broken in the broadest sense. Morality-fuelled censor- ship is rare, but occasionally ports are unfetchable, have security holes, fail to build or simply don't work. --=20 A.J. "Fonz" van Werven <freebsd@skysmurf.nl> mailsig: Help! I'm a prisoner in a Chinese fortune cookie factory. --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJYDOVSAAoJEAfP7gJTaCe8zfMP/i06KSD3bNPGFuBbH5t/c54F avnNvyC1BRAhGB/f6+l/zM/zhC6fw2GypS/6RJEuvWaYGv8m3J3Z7vSPpuQOZSmz g6FsJ5ss+/gRx+lrBr0JTAcvMF6LTaUhGkUBxlo/kqBUeXyLwHK4ygR4o+lbgGyw u2IQ5U5Zvupsv8d4/LTKfDKwCfzVRLMk0TDYM6uWyP1WLrcqTj8zjMWoD9gRGQd1 KxiRr/DcjNZEJ1y19hHhFASHIYaCJxMvbWdCFQUabdcfb3dbh4q8rW9a635ipIO9 gzv/Xr8KGL5KIaFbkVLjcNCuR5BwV5XeVPnUypRyokL4q3sJ8B3XWzG+23wMuh71 ghb2uvKh9kKetiH/H1KL9oMUZthUOWog3JHiitx9JdfpsJe8hMmHIWgipgrPcw4i MrtAg6I8uHP/dii02E9HLUo1/gRphNcsf7KaAUo/fhkPoLT0bWoVC+hp4iWBJm0k OK14Sb1+sBrXbu+7qPXDiZzU7GTa7cD3A66iKkJj5cvhdaMu1e43HIgpfDrXEN/7 gouXvFm15gXRLZphTV5pDOkDwOAXzdIgeRr/6xhFjhZzPhysY6kvQZiuksivAv+g 1+Fr9hKKELHW5F04PkP5fByBS27VbBK0JQhqgQVdvUK5zZhiJwxIXBwpvP9qG+qC RRwvo8gQ3T1iI9Jst88w =TtvR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f--
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