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

[David Southwell]

> 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
> 
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?

david