net-mgmt/prometheus update to 1.6.0, comitter requested

[Jev Björsell]

Great, thank you! Any feedback on port structure is welcome by me :)

-Jev

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:43 AM Larry Rosenman <ler at lerctr.org> wrote:

> Indeed.  I’m working with my Mentor (adamw@, and swills@(of portmgr@))
> and they had the issue with unknown.
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> I’ll get this done. ☺
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> *From: *Jev Björsell <jev at ecadlabs.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 1:39 PM
> *To: *Larry Rosenman <ler at lerctr.org>, "freebsd-ports at freebsd.org" <
> freebsd-ports at freebsd.org>
> *Subject: *Re: Re: net-mgmt/prometheus update to 1.6.0, comitter requested
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> Hi Larry,
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> I presume you are referring the the strings 'unknown' that appear in the
>  do-build: portion of the Makefile.
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> These are set to 'unknown' on purpose, because we do not have a way of
> finding out that information unless we do it dynamically at build time.
> Doing dynamically is not recommended for several reasons.
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> This data gets displayed when a user runs `prometheus -version`, and most
> of the fields are only really relevant to dev builds anyway.
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> The crucial information is the software version number which is set.
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> You can see me exchange on the subject in the ports mailing list archive
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> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2017-March/107833.html
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> -Jev
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> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:23 PM ler <ler at lerctr.org> wrote:
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> Can you fill in the unknown stuff in the version package or should I just
> go ahead and do it?
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> On Apr 19, 2017 at 10:22 PM, <Jev Björsell <jev at ecadlabs.com>> wrote:
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> Thanks Larry,
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> I have updated the patch on the bug, because the upstream project has just
> released a minor version/bug fix release. New patch updates us to 1.6.1.
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> Thanks,
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> -Jev
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> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:22 PM Larry Rosenman <ler at lerctr.org> wrote:
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> On 4/18/17, 2:41 PM, "Jev Björsell" <owner-freebsd-ports at freebsd.org on
> behalf of jev at ecadlabs.com> wrote:
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>     Hi All,
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>     Could I get a committer to apply my latest update patch for net-mg
>     mt/prometheus?
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>     Patch is available here:
>     https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218737
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>     Thanks so much,
>     -Jev
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> Waiting for my mentor to approve.
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