Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:46:25 -0700 From: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: saving a few ports from death Message-ID: <20110427184625.GC2729@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik_65bxMgiQMyy1aojDuDjb6BX%2BgQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <ip53jn$92d$1@dough.gmane.org> <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> <20110426024122.GA38579@comcast.net> <A9C17565-97D8-43F1-9CF7-8CFC79EFEA7B@FreeBSD.org> <20110426163424.GB38579@comcast.net> <20110426141209.0d07bccf@seibercom.net> <20110426184315.GA2320@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <19895.13977.553973.609431@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4DB83D6E.9000800@aldan.algebra.com> <BANLkTik_65bxMgiQMyy1aojDuDjb6BX%2BgQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoth Eitan Adler on Wednesday, 27 April 2011:
> > What is not broken -- just old, like =A0databases/db2 or www/apache13*,=
for
> > example -- should be left alone (until it becomes both broken and
> > unmaintained). And even then, the removal should not be
> > mass-scale/automatic...
>=20
> This recent sweep was neither mass scale nor automatic.
> 536/22816 ports is only 3.234% of all the ports. Furthermore bapt@,
> myself, and a few other people went through each of the categories
> ensuring the projects were actually dead (not necessarily that the
> distfile couldn't be found). Then bapt@ marked the ports *deprecated*
> which does not mean deleted. It was a warning that people who were
> interested should step up and take up the work. If after N amount of
> time no one does so they will be individually deleted.
>=20
> > Maybe, for cleanliness and neatness, we should have a separate directory
> > (and category): "obsolete" -- where ports can go to die peacefully. But=
it
> > should not be cvs' "Attic"...
>=20
> Who will be the ones to deal with that category, ensuring new
> infrastructure works, etc? The port maintainer? oh wait!
> cvs's Attic can be easily restored if people take up the slack. I see
> no reason to change this policy.
>=20
> --=20
> Eitan Adler
Modifying the script that was posted earlier, we can list out all
installed ports that are currently deprecated, and why:
#!/bin/sh =
=20
=
=20
prefix=3D/usr/ports/ =
=20
makefile=3D/Makefile =
=20
=
=20
for file in `pkg_info -oxa | grep "/"` =
=20
do =
=20
yes=3D`grep DEPRECATED=3D ${prefix}${file}${makefile}`
if [ -n "$yes" ] =
=20
then
echo $file $yes
fi =
=20
done=20
When I ran this on my system, I found only lang/libutils. It must have been
needed by something I've since uninstalled, because nothing depends on it
now -- so I deleted it.
--=20
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