Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 23:42:20 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/kdemultimedia Makefile ports/audio/kdemultimedia/patches patch-a0 patch-ab patch-ac patch-ag patch-ah Message-ID: <19980712234220.19661@mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <199807100030.BAA19304@awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 01:30:23AM %2B0100 References: <87r9zvpnoj.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> <199807100030.BAA19304@awfulhak.org>
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On 1998-07-10 01:30 +0100, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> wrote: > > "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > > > > > scrappy 1998/07/08 20:53:01 PDT > > > > > > Modified files: > > > audio/kdemultimedia Makefile > > > Removed files: > > > audio/kdemultimedia/patches patch-a0 patch-ab patch-ac > > > patch-ag patch-ah > > > Log: > > > Change to UNBROKEN ... > > > Add USE_GMAKE to get past a compile problem in kmid > > > Remove patches, as were not required to cleanly compile > > > > Why don't you just wait until Stefan commits the 1.0pre versions for > > the KDE ports? You could at least contact the maintainer before you > > jump right in. > > Hmm, I don't wish to criticise the maintainer (I have no idea about > his other commitments), but this port along with other kde 4.1-beta > ports has been broken for some time. Sorry, I've been overloaded at work for too long a time already. > I sent a complete set of patches to bring the whole lot up to 4.1 at > one point and got absolutely no reply. I do remember your mail, and it is still in my INBOX, but I just had to do much more urgent things that ate my rare spare time. I'm doing what I can, but I really don't have time to react to more than a few mails per day (and often don't have time to even retrieve mail from my ISP for 10 days or more). > While I have no doubt that the stuff Stefan is doing is far more > thorough than what I did, I have to agree with ``scrappy'' - it's > broken, so fix it. Besides, shipping 2.2.7 w/ broken ports will look > a bit silly :-/ Yes, but I have already invested quite a number of hours (didn't count them) to prepare a complete set of Pre-1 ports. In fact, the patches relative to 4.1 that Thomas Gellekum sent were quite complete, but I just test them on my system, check the LIB_DEPENDS (which were the only thing I had to fix in Thomas' patches ;-) and compile with different prefixes and then finally on a system with all traces of KDE removed, just to be sure that dependencies work. This takes many tens of hours in total (4 compilations plus time to actually fix things). I really should have gotten me a faster machine than my old 486, but it does its job for everything else except building giant ports like the complete KDE. The problem with the switch from Beta-4 to 1.0-Pre is, that I can't easily test whether Beta-4 kdeutils, kdenetwork, ... will compile with 1.0-Pre headers and libraries. Testing compatibility would take nearly as long as the upgrade of all the KDE ports. Since ports and packages are built automagically, I had to mark all of the Beta-4 based ports that I've not yet finished as BROKEN, while they are in fact still quite functional. (I had less trouble with Beta-4 over the last month than with 1.0-Pre in just a few days.) I did not commit any update to 1.0-Pre because I did not yet have all of the parts ready. And as the maintainer I think its up to me, when I actually commit a new version ! Regarding the "upgrade" of the kdemultimedia port: You can fix anything on your system, you can send me patches or submit your patches with send-pr, you can complain loudly on the mail lists, but please do not remove patches that are meant to remove the dependency on some non-standard build tool (GNU make in this case) without asking. In fact, your commit made my work harder, since it conflicts with what I already changed, and I had to clean up the resulting mess. This does not help to get the updated KDE ports committed earlier :( Regards, STefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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