FreeBSD ports which are currently marked broken

[Kaya Saman]

Is this only for "Ports" which don't build or "Ports" which have other issues??

I posted an issue with the net/samba36 port where it doesn't seem to
create the PAM module??

Regards,


Kaya


On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:
> linimon at freebsd.org wrote:
>> As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in
>> the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically notify users of ports
>
> Hi all,
> Reports should be ordered to draw the interest of readers, these aren't yet.
>
> Probably:
>  Many readers on ports@ often delete these periodic mails part unread, for
>  lack of time, as too verbose & hard to quickly scan (not read) through.
>
>  Remaining readers mostly just try to Quickly scan
>  Just the 2nd column in the top line of each section, ie
>                category/portname
>  Just to check ports they use are not mentioned,
>  trying to Not read irrelevant junk,
>  hoping to hit Delete ASAP.
>        If a port interest, they would be prepared to scan down
>        If not, delete ASAP, (as fewer are interested in creating
>                patches & filing send-pr for ports they don't use).
>
> It's hard to quickly scan Just those 2nd col 1st line.
>
> To insert a simple initial list of nothing but port names:
>        echo $shorter_intro                                     > posting
>        cat report | grep portname: | sed -e s/portname://      >> posting
>        cat report                                              >> posting
>        cat footnotes_was_intro                                 >> posting
>
> Move the bulky introduction to foot notes. Consider the eye of a busy reader:
>  "Argh! I got trapped reading that old boring blurb Again!
>   Why no title like "Bad Ports Report" in top of body (not just Subject:)
>   to prompt us if we've seen the title before we can skip the intro?
>   Probably no ports that interest me anyway,
>   Shall I wade through all that text, in case something of interest, Or
>   Shall I gamble it's probably irrelevant to me, save time & hit Delete ?"
>
> $shorter_intro= \
>  "Ports listed below have gone bad; Details below list; Notes below that."
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
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