Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:10:57 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org> To: Leonardo Lazarte <llazarte@mat.unb.br> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announce Broken Ports Message-ID: <20030725171057.GA11249@webserver> In-Reply-To: <20030725135522.G29917-100000@mx1.mat.unb.br> References: <20030725135522.G29917-100000@mx1.mat.unb.br>
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:00:07PM -0300 or thereabouts, Leonardo Lazarte wrote:
>
> As seen in several messages to this and other lists, the PORTS
> mecanism has been broken.
It only seems so because of the dependency on pkg_info -O.
>
> I have read about some patches and possible solutions, but I
> could not find an easy way to overcome the problem.
CVSup /usr/src, cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_info, make install clean.
>
> Shouldn't it be announced clearly, on the FreeBSD site, that
> there is a problem with PORTS, perhaps pointing to some
> temporary solution, until the problem is solved?
NO, IMO that would be quite inappropriate. The fix is simple.
(It *would* be nice if someone could change bsd.port.mk to only
use pkg_info -O if ${OSRELDATE} >= 480000, however :-)
>
> I have used FreeBSD for a decade, and it is the first time
> that I have to change the OS version due to problems broght
> from the distributions.
A decade? Nope.
Now -- July 2003
1.0 -- November 1993
So no, there HASN'T been a decade of FreeBSD. (I'm sure there'll be
a party in November :-)
-- Josh
>
> Leonardo
>
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