Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:49:54 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yest one more: devel/crosssco Message-ID: <XFMail.980331144954.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <5302.891379608@time.cdrom.com>
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On 31-Mar-98 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: ... > There are gremlins in your system and I strongly suggest that you halt > testing of ports until you figure out what they are. I've been > building the ports you've been flagging on a recently installed > -current box and they work fine. I strongly suggest that you > *completely reinstall* the test box you're using (and if it's not > capable of doing that then you're using the wrong test box for > -current) from a recent 3.0-SNAP and try this again. Don't simply > upgrade it since you leave room for a lot of historical cruft from > previous releases to screw up your -current ports builds. I just > completed a full build/install of crosssco on bento.freebsd.org, for > example, and it worked perfectly. What you say is logically impossible. ANY system will get contaminated with the ports building. To take this argument to its logical conclusion, I will have to make a clean install for EVERY package. Otherwise as packages build (and install themselves), they will contaminate the system. If my system is contaminated, this is the only way in which it could have gotten to be contaminated. Thus, the ports building process is actually a virus, or a Trojan horse; It performs damaging acts not specified, nor anticipated, nor documented. I can accept this reality as ``this is what it is'', but not the ``acusation'' that my system is broken. I will not report any more of these breakages to these lists. Instead, I will download the binaries from ftp.freebsd.org and mark them, in our release notes as ``binary only. Not reproducable''. Thanx for all the help. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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