Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 15:39:15 -0800 (PST) From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> To: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Fresh postgres95 port Message-ID: <199611082339.PAA20282@idiom.com>
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* Might I ask why you didn't submit a PR for the problem ? The FreeBSD * project has an excellent resolution system for dealing with problems like * this, yet you didn't seem to use it. Because a: I try to fix things myself b: I'm not paying for support c: based on previous PRs that I've submitted, I have no reason to expect a PR to be dealth with in under six months. d: I wanted it working now. e: It has been broken for a long time. f: It appeared to be broken in part because people were doing development on -current systems. I run -stable and I'm not going to apologize for running -stable either! g: I got frustrated. h: I thought fixing it would be appreciated. I'll be sure to call for help rather than fix things next time I have a problem. When it doesn't get solved immediately, I'll complain that the free support isn't good enough. i: There were more than two things wrong with the port: - old version of postgres - makefile dependencies on -current - did not build tcl/tk portion (or didn't reference it in the makefile anyway) - when it broke, a it was very hard to fix because it used environment variables to set the top of the tree and (of course) they weren't set. - there may have been other problems, but I don't know for sure because I gave up when hit by the previous problem. * I originally helped the port maintainer with the postgres95 port, and it * worked perfectly on several systems, including -stable and -current. I * can only assume that you didn't bring your concerns to the port * maintainer. How about 2.1.5R or 2.1R? * I will take a look at your port, but I won't be committing it into the * repository over the old one. I suggest that you work with the current * maintainer (matt@bdd.net) instead of just taking a 'I can do it better * attitude' to fixing problems. If everyone did that, we'd have another * OpenBSD on our hands. 8-) He seems to be looking at my port. Hopefully, he'll create one that is even better than mine, but at the moment, mine works and his does not. I just want it fixed. As long as I was fixing, it I figured I would share my work. -Dave
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