Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:36:25 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: karl@Mcs.Net (Karl Denninger) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, karl@Mcs.Net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building ports and packages? Message-ID: <199608120506.OAA14144@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199608120330.WAA09868@Jupiter.mcs.net> from "Karl Denninger" at Aug 11, 96 10:30:20 pm
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Karl Denninger stands accused of saying: > > > > Can you be more specific about exactly what fails when you try building > > stuff? Are you getting makefile breakdown, checksum failures, or compile > > failures? > > I'm getting checksum failures, failures to get the dist files (I fixed that > by SUPping them and the ports list from ftp.freebsd.org) and STILL got > checksum failures! Hmm. If you're sure your collection is up-to-date (and that you're supping from someone that is), let ports@freebsd.org know about your checksum failures. I'm not so keen on aborting the build just because the checksums don't match, but that's policy 8( Failure fetch the distfiles tends to imply that the new 'fetch' tool doesn't work. I always fetch manually, so I haven't seen that one. > So now I'm commenting out specific distributions..... but it appears that > about 10% or so are blowing up. And repacking them is basically impossible; > "make packages" doesn't do anything other than run through the builds (it > makes no .tgz files) 'make package' requires 'make install' beforehand, so you have to be root to do it. > > Which /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk do you have? Latest is > > $Id: bsd.port.mk,v 1.218 1996/08/07 08:25:08 asami Exp $ > > $Id: bsd.port.subdir.mk,v 1.14 1996/04/09 22:54:13 wosch Exp $ > > That's what's in my directory here... > > # $Id: bsd.port.mk,v 1.216 1996/07/05 06:12:12 jkh Exp $ Hmm, that's 1.216, not 1.218. I don't know if the changes are significant. > Ok; I'll go ahead and load that, but the problem is that I'm still hosed on > the distributions that fail checksum... If the checksums are pissing you off (like they do me), then just delete them all in the short term, and complain like hell on freebsd-ports to get something done about them in the long term. If I had the time and the connectivity (ha!) I'd cook up a quick Tcl script to walk the ports tree, retrieve the distfiles and check their checksums. I don't; if you have the bandwidth then perhaps we could collaborate on this - keeping track of 500+ distfiles is an almost impossible task from the manual point of view. At any rate, _please_ advise the freebsd-ports list of the ports that are giving you build trouble so that they can be checked and fixed. > Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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