New tools for committers and maintainers

[Emanuel Haupt]

Greg Larkin <glarkin at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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> Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> > Wesley Shields <wxs at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 08:41:28PM +0200, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> >>> Wesley Shields <wxs at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 08:12:23PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> A new tool was just committed to ports, ports-mgmt/distilator.
> >>>>> It will check for you each of the MASTER_SITES of the port you
> >>>>> call it with.
> >>>> The link I was given when ehaupt@ ran it included URLs in
> >>>> pkg-descr too. It even found some of those that were no longer
> >>>> valid for me.
> >>> ports-mgmt/distilator can do that too. It's basically code
> >>> extracted from the version that creates the distilator report [1]
> >>> and put into a library.
> >> Thanks! I didn't mean to imply that distilator could not do that. I
> >> just wanted to point out that it does more than just MASTER_SITE
> >> checking. In any case, thank you again for making it. It will be
> >> quite useful in cleaning up the little things that can go stale
> >> over time.
> > 
> > You're very welcome :)
> > 
> > Emanuel
> 
> Small issue at installation here - I have Perl 5.8.9 installed, and I
> got this error:
> 
> Perl v5.10.1 required--this is only v5.8.9, stopped at ./Makefile.PL
> line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./Makefile.PL line 1.
> 
> The Makefile specifies PERL_CONFIGURE=5.8.0+, though.  I'll upgrade
> Perl and try it again.

Thanks for the pointer. I've just changed the port:

-PERL_CONFIGURE=        5.8.0+
+PERL_CONFIGURE=        5.10.1+

Emanuel