From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 31 09:50:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03819 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:50:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA03811 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:50:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 614 invoked from network); 31 Mar 1998 17:59:34 -0000 Received: from localhost.simon-shapiro.org (HELO sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost.simon-shapiro.org with SMTP; 31 Mar 1998 17:59:34 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-032398 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199803311719.JAA17887@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:59:34 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: (Satoshi Asami) Subject: Re: editor/nedit patching fails Cc: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 31-Mar-98 Satoshi Asami wrote: .. > First, make sure that you don't have any old patches lying around. > The best way is to go to ftp.freebsd.org, fetch the portball (not > distfile) of the port, and run a md5 check on all files. Is this not the same as cvsup of the ports? > * Ports are very uneven. I am trying to sort them out. > > Oh, definitely. You don't even want to hear what I have to do to > build all the packages quickly on the same machine. But if you build > one at a time, that shouldn't be too hard. Oh, yes I do. I only do it one at the time since it breaks into too many pieces otherwise. > * Nope. Not totally. I had ONE case of a corrupt package. This was > * admitted and apologized for. > > And a bunch of "but it works for me" reports. :> Which indicates environmental deltas. If I follow the procedure and it breaks, the procedure is broken. Either by not checking or by not setting the environment properly. Example, if I supposedly have the wrong version of patch(1), then the port is sensitive to patch version and should check for it. > * you do, I'll buy you dinner next time I am in the BA). > > I'd like to take you up on that offer (what's your budget? :), but > don't have much time now. Please check back in a week or so. What's reasonable and customary between friends :-) ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message