From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 20:25:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B3C106567F for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:25:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from fallbackmx06.syd.optusnet.com.au (fallbackmx06.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3438FC28 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:25:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail12.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail12.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.193]) by fallbackmx06.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9T97FP4028312 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:07:15 +1100 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c122-106-215-175.belrs3.nsw.optusnet.com.au [122.106.215.175]) by mail12.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9T979mR007718 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:07:10 +1100 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m9T97978028839; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:07:09 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id m9T9791n028838; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:07:09 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:07:08 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: FBSD1 Message-ID: <20081029090708.GP1137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QDIl5R72YNOeCxaP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: ports missing their packages. 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, 29 Oct 2008 20:25:45 -0000 --QDIl5R72YNOeCxaP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2008-Oct-29 16:09:23 +0800, FBSD1 wrote: >It's my understanding that a port maintainer has to install the port for >real any time a change is made to the port make files or a update to the >source of the software to test and verify the changes work as wanted. I'm not sure what you mean by "install the port for real". A port maintainer is responsible for updating his/her ports and verifying that they work. This presumably includes building and installing the port. >Creating the package after this is just one command and a ftp upload >to the package server. This isn't true for a whole variety of reasons. > Why are maintainers being given approval to apply their >changes without creating the required package? Because packages aren't "required" and creation of packages is nothing to do with ports maintainers. =20 > This is just lax management >on the part of the people who do the authorizing of the changes. I suggest you do a bit more reading and a bit less pontificating. > Missing >packages increases user frustration level and makes FreeBSD look like its >being mis-managed. Not all ports have packages for a variety of reasons and there is no requirement that every port has packages for every supported version of FreeBSD. Maybe you need to learn how to "cd /usr/ports/... && make install" --=20 Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. --QDIl5R72YNOeCxaP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkIJ7wACgkQ/opHv/APuIdYmgCfc3TMrjI0kBh28K9Zfb7JYUqu UY0An2J/xGE5e4lA0twnhyxSJHM/voZh =ziKu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QDIl5R72YNOeCxaP--