From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 18 10:39:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434F437B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 126CF43E97 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:39:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 46402 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Oct 2002 17:39:17 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:39:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: Scott Long Cc: current@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, dirk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrtools doesn't build on -current (pkg_add -r segfault) In-Reply-To: <20021018073701.GA71980@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Scott Long wrote: > [...] > **Warning, rant** > The ports collection is one of the crown jewels of FreeBSD. > Unfortunately, even as more ports committers are added, more and > more ports break or become harder to build. On top of that, > pkg_add has become close to worthless now that the -r feature > is so fragile. I found a bug in libfetch a while back that causes pkg_add -r to seg fault on the 2nd package. This was also reported by numerous people. See thread: I received NO replies but am not the maintainer of libfetch. So this message will serve as a warning -- if someone more familiar with the code does not fix it the "right" way, I will fix it and you may not like it. http://www.dlc.fi/~frog/wavs/failure2.wav -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message