Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 08:13:38 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports not mentioned in their category's Makefile Message-ID: <20111101071337.GE27932@droso.net> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmH-09HACDAbE38LMzGF7QPy4B1BxD1n3SbdJPKt%2BZdxQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20111031182049.6e70c8cd@cox.net> <CAF6rxgmH-09HACDAbE38LMzGF7QPy4B1BxD1n3SbdJPKt%2BZdxQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 08:13:14PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> wrote: > > > I've generated a list of 57 ports that are not mentioned in the > > Makefiles for their respective categories. Before I do anything more > > with this information (like submit patches), though, I just wanted to > > check to see if there's any interest in correcting this. > > > > Please send the list to ports@freebsd.org. Keep in mind that some ports > not listed may have been incomplete or aborted repocopies. There is no > need to send patches, the fix is easy enough ;) > Thanks for doing this and as you mention, this should be cleaned up as those ports won't be in INDEX, readme, build packages, etc. As Eitan mentioned, there are several valid reasons for this, usually as a temporary measure though. Those ports are also mentioned in the logs on pointyhat and occassionally someone from portmgr contacts the maintainers, but if you have some code available I'd be happy to set this up as a weekly reminder to maintainers. Erwin -- Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Prediction is very difficult especially about the future erwin@FreeBSD.org
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