audio/squeezecenter: .tgz not on Freebsd.org (is on slimdevices.com); perl probs

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 17 05:16:50 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:05:31PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 05:46:59PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:19:35PM +0100, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> > > Chris Shenton unleashed the infinite monkeys on 13/06/2008 19:50 producing:
> > >> The port tries to find the .tgz on FreeBSD.org only, but it does not
> > >> exist.  I found it on slimdevices -- same MD5, SHA256, SIZE:
> > >> 
> > >> http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/SqueezeCenter_v7.0.0/squeezecenter-7.0-noCPAN.tgz
> > > 
> > > I saw the same thing, but grabbed the 7.0.1 version instead (as the port is 
> > > supposedly 7.0.1).  I had to change the variable WRKSRC to reflect the new 
> > > directory.
> > 
> > I suspect you have an outdated port.  What is the $FreeBSD*$ string in the
> > comment at the top of the Makefile?  It should be:
> > 
> > # $FreeBSD: ports/audio/squeezecenter/Makefile,v 1.46 2008/06/12 00:56:51 brooks Exp $
> > 
> > > I instead get:
> > > 
> > > Starting squeezecenter.
> > > The following CPAN modules were found but cannot work with SqueezeCenter:
> > >   JSON::XS::VersionOneAndTwo (loaded <not found>, need 0.31)
> > > 
> > > The JSON package is installed:
> > > 
> > > p5-JSON-XS-2.20     JSON serialising/deserialising, done...
> > 
> > This is almost certainly caused be an outdated port.  The JSON::XS
> > version in ports used to match the one in the ports system.  As a
> > result, the fact that I'd failed to remove all of the pieces from the
> > CPAN directory in the distribution didn't hurt.  Once the ports version
> > was updated that caused things to break.  I suspect that's the problem
> > here, though it could be something else.
> 
> OK, I've got to take most of this back.  This could be correct, but
> probably isn't.
> 
> It looks like I botched the 7.0.1 upgrade fairly badly by not checking
> the downloads thuroughly and as a result the URL was bogus.  It only
> appears to work if you already had the old distfile around.  I'm
> currently packing for a trip, but will try to get the port upgraded
> correctly in the next day or two.
> 
> Sorry for the confusion.

I belive the port is now correctly updated.  The previous version
(7.0.1) was wrong in several ways.

-- Brooks

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