Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:05:04 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: pkg-plist strict enforcement starting Message-ID: <20050113180504.GA26064@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501131148520.25402-100000@pancho> References: <20050113062739.GA28658@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501131148520.25402-100000@pancho>
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--J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:56:19AM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > > How do you treat an upgrade? Both Munin ports need to conserve state. > > > And they can only do that by leaving symlinks and files behind. > >=20 > > There's got to be some way to handle the somewhat different > > configuration needs of this port in a way compatible with the > > requirements imposed on the rest of the ports collection, but I don't > > have time to think about it right now. >=20 > My suggestion is that we mark this port IGNORE for now to keep it > out of our error reports, to allow us to concentrate on fixing as > many of the other problematic ports as possible. >=20 > About a month ago I went through all the IGNOREd ports and there is > some further work to be done on some of them but IMHO at a lower > priority than BROKEN/DEPRECATED issues. Moving (almost) all of the > non-plist-compliant ports into the BROKEN/DEPRECATED space is a big > change; I doubt we can catch every edge condition as we do so. I'm going to be careful about not allowing the "questionable" packages to fall foul of the pkg-plist checking, until we decide one way or the other whether they should be considered "broken". Kris --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB5rhPWry0BWjoQKURAuz9AJ0RdvVHlMXrIz3UgrFVzsiyz+9fvgCgkgKE MCgNnjuk35gfmmDzLDkJFaU= =uPRX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf--
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