Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:15:56 -0400 From: "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@adaptec.com> To: "'Nate Lawson'" <nate@root.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: cdrtools doesn't build on -current (pkg_add -r segfault) Message-ID: <6100BCEB85F8E244959C756C04E0EDD161CAD1@otcexc01.otc.adaptec.com>
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> > 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: > <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209231037310.62714-100000@root.org> > > 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. If you have a fix and the maintainer has not replied, then please do commit your fix as soon as possible. The worst that could happen is that the maintainer wakes up. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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