Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:50:37 +0100 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, wes@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devel/poco-ssl BROKEN. Can I use TRYBROKEN? Message-ID: <20100201125037.GA4011@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <d873d5be1001311209i6cd1855ancb7cfef968ac1c37@mail.gmail.com> References: <d873d5be1001311209i6cd1855ancb7cfef968ac1c37@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 03:09:26PM -0500, b. f. wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > devel/poco-ssl has been marked
> > BROKEN= bad plist
> > for some time now.
> >
> > Since I urgently need it for devel work, and as I would prefer
> > to use the port rather than compile POCO directly (which works
> > too), I'm considering bypassing this BROKEN setting with:
> >
> > .if ${.CURDIR:M*/devel/poco-ssl}
> > TRYBROKEN=yes
> > .endif
> >
> > in /etc/make.conf.
> >
> > Is it okay, until devel/poco-ssl is fixed?
>
> You can do whatever you want on your own system. The reason given
> for marking it BROKEN was a bad plist, and if that is the only thing
> wrong with it, then you need only worry about it leaving unregistered
> files behind after it is removed, or possibly conflicting with another
> port. If that's alright with you, then you may as well use NO_IGNORE
> or TRYBROKEN as a workaround.
Okay, I've tried it on a test machine, and it seems to work
alright (so far), at least with the few programs I've compiled.
It looks like a bad plist only, and I think that I understand
the ramifications of it, so I'll stick to this workaround until
the port is fixed.
> > Oh, btw, I'm still missing the poco-doc port which pulls in
> > the POCO documentation. :-(
>
> Oh, well. If the maintainer won't do it, maybe you could take the
> time to fix the plist and offer an option to install the docs?
I'll have a look as soon as I grok the ports system and find
out how to do that. ;-)
Thanks,
-cpghost.
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