From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 28 13:25:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 777331065696 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:25:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) Received: from mailrelay.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (mailrelay.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.3.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279C18FC28 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from virusscan.mail (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay.mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51FAF5BC51; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by virusscan.mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436915BC89; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:05 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at uni-wuerzburg.de Received: from mail.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wthp192.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.40.192]) by mailmaster.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076FF5D6F5; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from wep4035 ([132.187.37.35]) by mail.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Lotus Domino Release 8.0.2FP1HF244) with ESMTP id 2009102814250419-225370 ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:04 +0100 Received: by wep4035 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:04 +0100 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:04 +0100 From: Alexey Shuvaev To: Adrian Glaubitz Message-ID: <20091028132504.GC22422@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Mail-Followup-To: Adrian Glaubitz , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4AE79A4E.3070404@googlemail.com> <11167f520910271955q45c4109dqd2ada4959ce58db8@mail.gmail.com> <1e6df7760910280245y7717d74cn4cefc6a581c6260f@mail.gmail.com> <20091028134640.58eb3cb9@ernst.jennejohn.org> <1e6df7760910280556q3d9f0394t87b192fbbbf9adad@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1e6df7760910280556q3d9f0394t87b192fbbbf9adad@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: Universitaet Wuerzburg X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on domino1/uni-wuerzburg(Release 8.0.2FP1HF244 | April 7, 2009) at 10/28/2009 02:25:04 PM, Serialize by Router on domino1/uni-wuerzburg(Release 8.0.2FP1HF244 | April 7, 2009) at 10/28/2009 02:25:04 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: qtcreator-1.2.1: Not installable X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:25:06 -0000 On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:56:25PM +0100, Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Gary Jennejohn > wrote: > > The qtcreator port was created on May 7, 2009. =A0Seems to me that 7.2R > > is older than that. =A0Obviously, qtcreator can't exist for 7.2R if the > > port didn't exist when it was released. >=20 > Well, ok. Seems another case of "different systems, different > philosophies" here for me. >=20 > My idea was that I was downloading the latest STABLE release of > FreeBSD and I assumed that the ports directory always applies to the > current STABLE version, noone should use a development version for > daily use, should one. >=20 The base system (more or less what consists a RELEASE) and ports are mostly independent of each other. Normal FreeBSD user will have some RELEASE (say 7.2R) and up-to-date version of ports. There is no separate STABLE or CURRENT versions of ports, there is only one. (Well, there are marcuscom and area51 for testing new gnome and kde releases, respectively, but you don't need to mess with them). This explains the following: > Besides, the ports website doesn't list at all what versions of > FreeBSD include this port as opposed to Debian, for example; I don't > want to start a flamewar though. It's not really user-friendly, is it. >=20 > I guess the minimum for my project will be FreeBSD 8.0 then. >=20 FreeBSD 7 will be ok too. You can add some phrase like "Before the software can be built, the following ports/packages have to be installed: devel/qtcreator audio/taglib devel/glib20 audio/sox audio/libmad security/libmcrypt. Note that ports tree newer than 7 May 2009 is needed to build qtcreator." This is FreeBSD-user friendly. HTH, Alexey.