Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 11:23:11 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Challenge during the ports freeze Message-ID: <20050805152311.GB4282@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050805060115.GA20697@lupe-christoph.de> References: <20050804211547.GA678@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050805060115.GA20697@lupe-christoph.de>
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--rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 08:01:15AM +0200, Lupe Christoph wrote: > On Thursday, 2005-08-04 at 17:15:47 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Currently there are about 350 ports that are broken on i386 6.0 (see > > http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-6-failure.html). >=20 > I'm the maintainer of sysutils/munin-node, which is on the list, > seemingly because it leaves state behind on pkg_delete. Is it required > now that this does not happen? >=20 > We had the discussions a few times already. As a reminder, munin-node > needs to preserve state for an upgrade in the form of a version file > (usr/local/etc/munin/VERSION.node) and a couple of symlinks. The > creation of the default set of (system dependent) symlinks is a courtesy > of the user because it provides a sensible starting point. The version > file is required to add new symlinks to the set. >=20 > Munin behaves this way in all other platform ports. Changing this > behaviour would make the FreeBSD the sore thumb of the Munin ports ;-) I remember these previous discussions and accept that it would take some work to make munin-node ports-conformant, but unfortunately, it's not easy to exclude this port from the standard package checks (no other packages need that), which means it will have to stay listed as a "broken" port for now because of these extra files. Kris --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC84RfWry0BWjoQKURApPCAJ9uTFMswrm4+YTRt7MBPqFvmP/vXwCeOkrX 7wWn7uo16ROQAAryeuN8eoM= =uw4f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU--
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