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

David Southwell david at vizion2000.net
Tue Dec 22 14:33:55 UTC 2009


> David Southwell wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:23:58AM +0000, David Southwell wrote:
> >>
> >> Strange, but you can try to figure out what happening at pointyhat:
> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/errorlogs/simon@olofsson.de-date.html
> >
> > Maybe it was failing for pointhat - but certainly did not fail on my 
> > Freebsd p3 amd64 (Intel Quad core). It was after I  upgraded to 2.5.0
> > that it was labelled as broken.
> >
> > I have removed the Broke line from Makefile. It compiles without
> > compalining but I have not tried to deinstall/reinstall in case I break
> > the appl.
> >
> > Comments please?
> 
> Looks like the problem would have been fixed in PR ports/141375, which
>  modified the cups-base port to create the directory in question.  As that
>  fix was applied on the 12th at 19:39 and the last pointyhat test on
>  cups-pdf appears to have been on the same day at 20:57 I reckon pointyhat
>  just missed getting the fix for at least one of its test cases by about ><
>  that much.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
Well spotted Mathew! So can anyone test it out afresh on pointyhat and commit 
as appropriate?

Thanks David



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