What can I do?

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Mar 28 11:34:03 UTC 2007


Florent Thoumie <flz at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> It's working for you without major breakage only because you're using
> 500 ports out of 16000+ (like I do, like almost everybody does). Still
> some ports are breaking with the new xorg, or because of the prefix
> merge. We're working on those ports. Have a look at [1] or [2] to get
> regular updates on xorg work.
> [...]
> As you can see on [3], we're still committing fixes. We usually fix
> those ports by ourselves (miwi, lesi and myself) but occasionally
> forward them to maintainers when we can't figure out what's wrong or
> when it requires non-trivial fix. When we fixed all ports broken in a
> single experimental pointyhat build, a new one is scheduled and then we
> get new errorlogs, ...

I suspect you're way past the point where new issues show up faster
than you can fix them.  The only way out of this tar pit is to merge
everything into the ports tree so other port maintainers have a real
incentive to help you out.

DES
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