Ports marked as IGNORE - (cups-pdf) & (urlview) why - how long?

[Alexey Shuvaev]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:23:58AM +0000, David Southwell wrote:
> > David Southwell wrote:
> > > Hi just curious about:
> > >
> > > - print/cups-pdf (marked as IGNORE)
> > >         - textproc/urlview (marked as IGNORE)
> > >
> > > Anyone know what is happening with these? Get IGNORE with portupgrade -a.
> > 
> > $ cd /usr/ports/print/cups-pdf
> > $ make
> > ===>  cups-pdf-2.5.0 is marked as broken: does not install.
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > Stop in /usr/local/ports/print/cups-pdf.
> > 
> > 
> > $ portmaster .
> > ===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/print/cups-pdf
> > 	===>>> This port is marked BROKEN
> > 	===>>> does not install
> > 
> > 	===>>> If you are sure you can build it, remove the
> > 	       BROKEN line in the Makefile and try again.
> > 
> > 
> > hth,
> > 
> > Doug
> > 
> > PS, Josh, if this e-mail address still works for you, howdy!  :)
> > 
> I am wondering what changes have taken place to change this from a functioning 
> port to one that justifies it being labelled as broken. It must have compiled 
> OK for me as I already have cups-pdf-2.5.0 installed which appears to be the 
> same version. I heard some rumour that it was failing on ubuntu but not on 
> freebsd. Is there any truth in that? 
> 
> Is there any provision to ensure that something which should be marked as 
> broken for ubuntu is not, in consequence,automatically marked as broken when 
> on freebsd?
> 
> dns1# pkg_info |grep cups
> cups-base-1.4.2_3   Common UNIX Printing System: Server
> cups-client-1.4.2_3 Common UNIX Printing System: Library cups
> cups-image-1.4.2_3  Common UNIX Printing System: Library cupsimage
> cups-pdf-2.5.0      A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files
> cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_4 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS 
> printers
> cups-samba-6.0_2    The Common UNIX Printing System:  MS Windows client 
> drivers
> cups-smb-backend-1.0_2 A CUPS backend for printing to Windows servers
> gnome-cups-manager-0.31_10,1 Admistration tool for cups
> gutenprint-cups-5.2.4 GutenPrint Printer Driver
> libgnomecups-0.2.3_2,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration
> py26-cups-1.9.46    CUPS bindings for Python
> dns1#
> 
Strange, but you can try to figure out what happening at pointyhat:
http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/errorlogs/simon@olofsson.de-date.html

0.02$,
Alexey.