Ports

Silent distfiles conflict between graphics/xface.el andmail/x-face-e21.
Hello! Could please someone with emacs knowledge (preferably ports commiter) look into issue http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=141839 Both ports refer distfiles with the same name but of different sizes (and checksums). It looks like one port is a subset of another, but I am not familiar with emacs to... 29 Mar 2010 14:44

"stable" ports?
Hi, First of all, I'd like to have this particular discussion in the open with ports developers and maintainers. So please - if you are a "simple" user, without a port to maintain, you will be given another thread if anything comes out as a result from this discussion. There is a discussion[*] currently in The... 6 Apr 2010 10:47

Newer autoconf (2.63+)?
We only have autoconf 2.13 and 2.62 in the tree. Upstream authors are increasingly moving towards and _requiring_ newer versions (2.63, 2.64, 2.65), and if you have to run autoconf, that is a problem. Are there any plans to provide a newer autoconf version? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber ... 29 Mar 2010 12:28

Now OK (Re: cvs commit: ports/print/panda/files patch-images.c)
print/panda, which was previously failing is OK after this commit. Thanks for fixing it! A description of the testing process can be found here: http://T32.TecNik93.com/FreeBSD/QA-Tindy/ Thanks for your work on making FreeBSD better, -- QAT - your friendly neighborhood Daemon, preparing a heck of an e... 29 Mar 2010 08:01

cvs commit: ports/print/panda/files patch-configure
The Restless Daemon identified a linker error while trying to build: panda-0.5.4_4 maintained by ports(a)FreeBSD.org Makefile ident: $FreeBSD: ports/print/panda/Makefile,v 1.29 2010/03/28 06:42:45 dinoex Exp $ Excerpt from http://QAT.TecNik93.com/logs/8-STABLE-NPD/panda-0.5.4_4.log : libtool: compile: cc -DHAV... 29 Mar 2010 08:01

Ports unstable for the next 10 days
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu(a)FreeBSD.org> writes: We do _NOT_ recommend updating ports until this commits are all done, and the problems are fixed, except if you want to help testing / fixing. Before reporting failures, please take a look at ports@ list, and http://qat.tecnik93.com/index.php?action=failed_b... 23 Apr 2010 21:18

[ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days
Hi, As announced before, a few big commits, that touch some thousands ports are being done: png, curl, x11, gnome, kde4. The target ETA is 6-7 April. The first one was done, update of graphics/png (including a shared lib version bump), with about 5000 ports affected. We do _NOT_ recommend updating ports ... 28 Mar 2010 10:06

graphics/png
In the /usr/ports/UPDATING is: "20090328: AFFECTS: users of graphics/png AUTHOR: dinoex(a)FreeBSD.org The png library has been updated to version 1.4.1. Please rebuild all ports that depend on it. If you use portmaster: portmaster -r jpeg- If you use portupgrade: portupgr... 28 Mar 2010 17:52

Now OK (Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/libwmf/files patch-gd_png.c)
graphics/libwmf, which was previously failing is OK after this commit. Thanks for fixing it! A description of the testing process can be found here: http://T32.TecNik93.com/FreeBSD/QA-Tindy/ Thanks for your work on making FreeBSD better, -- QAT - your friendly neighborhood Daemon, preparing a heck of ... 28 Mar 2010 07:53

Possibly unbuildable ports reminder
Dear porters, This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of unbuildable ports at http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ . A list by MAINTAINER is http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/errorlogs/ so you can easily check the status of ports that you maintain. In addition, the list of ports ... 28 Mar 2010 06:47