From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 26 17: 6:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BAD537B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:06:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAR15Bg28386 for stable@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:35:11 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:35:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rawio 1.1 on FreeBSD 4.2-BETA? Message-ID: <20001127113510.C27697@echunga.lemis.com> References: <20001119151418.K52433@echunga.lemis.com> <20001119084324.C39683@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001119084324.C39683@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 08:43:24AM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [addressed to David O'Brien, who prefers not to have his name on the To: line] On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 8:43:24 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:14:19PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 18 November 2000 at 15:37:39 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: >>> Greg, >>> >>> I'm not sure if you've heard complaints about this lately, but I >>> thought I'd drop you a line and see if you had any ideas what I might >>> be doing wrong. I did some searches of the archives for -questions, >>> -stable, and -current, and couldn't find anything that related to >>> "rawio AND random.h". >> >> There is a PR. I'm not sure under what circumstances it fails. > > http://bento.FreeBSD.org/errorlogs/4-full/ shows `rawio' isn't buildable > and won't be offered in package form in 4.2-RELEASE. One of the > responsibilities of a port's maintainer is to check and make sure the > port is buildable by checking this URL right before a release. First I've heard of it. Where is this documented? > When I passed maintainership over to you I did expect you would keep > the port buildable... When you passed maintainership over to me, I did expect you would have told me if it were not buildable. I was also rather surprised that you created patches rather than giving me feedback. The problem here is that your patch refers machine/random.h, which is not present in the base binary distribution. You should have used sys/random.h. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message