Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:53:22 -0500 From: Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> To: Daniel Valencia <fetrovsky@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: print/acroread7 on amd64 Message-ID: <43EB9DB2.4000109@vonostingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <20060209183211.21751.qmail@web53909.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060209183211.21751.qmail@web53909.mail.yahoo.com>
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Daniel Valencia wrote:
> than you all very much for your comments and suggestions, installing linux-gtk2 and then acroread7 worked very well... odd, since I would've thought acroread7 would install linux-gtk2 properly if needed...
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Daniel
>
>
> Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> wrote: "Julian H. Stacey" wrote:
>
>
>> Several Things: (& as this is a general answer ti's applicable to other
>> new folk who may care to read on)
>>
>
> In the general case I agree, but in this specific case I have to add some
> comments...
>
>
>> 2) mail `grep MAINTAINER
>> /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/print/acroread7`
>> rather than mailing the list
>> that's trevor@FreeBSD.org who I added to the CC
>>
>
> Trevor is not very responsive. Have a look at the PR's which are assigned to
> Trevor and how long there's absolutely no trace of action from his side.
>
> Not mailing the maintainer (by intend or not) *in this case* was right. I
> even think I will play devil's advocate and give back some of Trevor's ports
> (at least those with an open PR without feedback from Trevor) back to ports@.
> A maintainer timeout of ~5 months justifies this.
>
> Hey Trevor, this is a "please speak up" for you!
>
>
>> 4) Cruise the source of a previous distribvution, eg gtk2
>> looking for URLs for wherever they store their current stuff.
>>
>
> Doesn't help in this case, it's a bug in acroread7 and/or bsd.port.mk
> (depending on your POV). The suggestion in another mail to just install
> linux-gtk2 by hand is the work-around which has to be used here.
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.
>
>
See ports/91911. This isnt a bug in acroread7, its a bug in the way
linux-* ports are modifying ARCH.
Regards,
Frank Laszlo
[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/91911
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