ports/91911: [PATCH]: x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2: distfile unfetchable

[Jean-Yves Lefort]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:39:51 +0100
Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net> wrote:

> Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> >> Feel free to come up with other broken ports.
> >
> > They are not broken. I'm making the point that you should either
> 
> They are broken regarding the current (non-ideal) state of affairs.
> 
> > commit the SUB_ARCH (or whatever varname will make you sleep better)
> 
> I like to see LINUX_RPM_ARCH instead of SUB_ARCH.
> 
> > patch, let me do it, or have portmgr commit the bpm patch.
> 
> Since the change to linux-gtk/Makefile affects a lot of ports, I object to a
> commit without appropriate testing. Feel free to team up with portmgr for a
> test run on the ports build cluster (amd64 and ideally ia32 too) for this
> change. If portmgr doesn't see obvious problems in the test run with a
> change from ARCH to LINUX_RPM_ARCH, I welcome the commit of this patch.
> 
> > FYI, the following ports (which I maintain) are affected:
> >
> > emulators/linux-ePSXe
> > emulators/linux-peops-*
> > emulators/linux-pete-*
> > games/linux-x-plane
> > games/linux-x-plane-net-installer
> > x11-themes/linux-gtk-bluecurve-theme
> 
> The only thing you just said is, that your ports don't comply to the current
> scheme and you know about it.
> 
> All of those ports are some kind of leaf ports, while most of the ports which
> do the ARCH-dance ATM are infrastructure ports which are used by several leaf
> ports. The impact due to a bad change to the infrastructure ports is higher,
> than the impact of changes to your leaf ports. If portmgr doesn't has the
> time to do the test run on the cluster, I suggest you change your ports to
> comply to the current scheme. We can fix it properly (the quick fix is to
> commit this patch; a better solution would be to use bsd.linux-rpm.mk,
> especially since a new linux_base port without the use of the rpm command is
> upcomming) after the release then.

Personally I don't think that all this care is necessary; we're fixing
a bug. If you want a test run you can take the already submitted
patches and rename SUB_ARCH to LINUX_RPM_ARCH.

-- 
Jean-Yves Lefort

jylefort at FreeBSD.org
http://lefort.be.eu.org/
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