Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 18:25:56 +0200 From: Alphons van Werven <freebsd@skysmurf.nl> To: Louis Epstein <le@main.put.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsdorg Subject: Re: Jive prejudices Message-ID: <20161023162556.GA66792@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> In-Reply-To: <20161022155730.K31642-100000@main.put.com> References: <20161022155730.K31642-100000@main.put.com>
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--k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G 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. --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJYDOSTAAoJEAfP7gJTaCe8tBkP/17a+Z3igA2jDu7HuF8gn8Pj s3pSR6tV5o23fwQE/QqPwkn+95vuAqIM6zpvP/YinDScCp3e9lDjnOFyWxSqahrs 6oJ0cym+mEqD2cBYKViQMcAGd3YhkWtZtNoZL6s4xnMI0p5zRJHqZkvkasWPm/h9 WeuQ/YDeBDGC9QXyS4huE8fxlrqlofttlaFblLU0eu44C+/e/lp0owSlSv/6n4LT PzsuY1kfFj7WWxnRGcCA4a3o+N3/aS03e6BvBd+mbr5BX3LInALU8yIpHmAg0v7C Uwt32oZrvX9YNmcLabU4DOl1UFCu8XpPIvGoZiXJLP5cU5NEqV/kYB0untKzahfY 7rSNJ+ijBYVhM2E/yn0sd8OiwPkeoaf9gNiMSe2ymGRHnhtDduw8UYDjx7IVxCr4 exF6yOqH3C1bDucPi0BEhvwHZK4am1WoAuZ+83K8/9C/nPY0T81t3viDOrUZs0Lh WQw++83m7YEIuWOQ00s0tErjcTFy3P1PQf6iaoPM2e8gK/2rEvhSCH4Nks/u2cQ1 aeG8Nd5zPMXFDvIhJ7RMSqqDbX2iR88p+g1VOT2bijsO2xG0hEQcTOtpOQdY8P9p GXDT7R5BZBaTD+sEJLvRPLEVk0VGR7BECPuXER9XK7J437Qu2l0q5tL85ZSygg/C 8IiNIGql5vrNlZaRPV9c =c4i8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G--
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