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Date:      Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:29:31 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports usable or not [was: flowtable usable or not]
Message-ID:  <4F51118B.40800@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120302164505.GA1500@lonesome.com>
References:  <18c325310044439cbc4d03c7e0bbec52@dizum.com> <20120302164505.GA1500@lonesome.com>

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On 02/03/2012 16:45, Mark Linimon wrote:
>> Other ports aren't supported on certain target architectures but the build
>> > doesn't tell you that until after it has run for a couple of hours

> Those are also bugs.  Please send PRs for those, as well.  I am particularly
> concerned about amd64 in this regard (although I am actually only myself
> doing the package runs for sparc64 and powerpc).  We continually try to
> adjust the metadata for ports to indicate where they will and will not
> run, based on the output of pointyhat runs.  (OTOH pointyhat runs the
> src tree from "the oldest supported minor release on each branch", so
> this may be a clue .)

Which reminds me about this: ports/164638

I've kind of taken my eye of progress on that, being distracted by other
things.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey



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