Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 23:42:35 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: bmah@ca.sandia.gov, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: package build errors Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9902122338220.11786-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <199902120532.VAA87403@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Satoshi Asami wrote: > P.P.S. Ports marked BROKEN already are not included in the build. If > you have a port that is marked BROKEN and you have a fix, please > send it in even if it doesn't appear on the page. I was thinking about this the other day - people have been finding recently that some of the BROKEN ports are actually in perfect working order, since the conditions which caused them to be marked as such have gone away (transient net problem, change in the FreeBSD source tree that fixes the problem, or just committer error). Including ports which are marked BROKEN in your automatic package building would discover these false negatives (at the expense of building probably lots of packages which are legitimately broken). Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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