devel/flatzebra broken, maintainer timeout, please reverse commit

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Thu Jun 6 17:43:08 UTC 2013


On 6 Jun 2013 18:27, "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Am 06.06.2013 19:14, schrieb Chris Rees:
> > On 6 June 2013 16:11, Ganael LAPLANCHE <ganael.laplanche at martymac.org>
wrote:
> >> On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:07:08 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote
> >>
> >>> yes, this helps on ia64, thank you.
> >>> Probably will help on amd64, will check later.
> >>> Sorry for not thinking about is myself,
> >>> I just tried to update with portmaster, as usual.
> >>
> >> Tested on amd64, I can reproduce the problem.
> >>
> >> I'll have a look at that, thanks for reporting the problem.
> >>
> >
> > Usual approach is:
> >
> > CONFLICTS_BUILD= ${PKGBASE}-[0-9]*
> >
> > which clearly informs the user that's what s/he has to do.
>
> What an unfortunate situation, and especially recommendation.
>
> I'd propose that the build be fixed so it prefers the local headers from
> the distfiles, rather than the older ones in the system.

That's the proper fix- sorry I was unclear there; I meant if it can't be
fixed easily.

Chris

> Can we please put that into the porter's handbook as a test requirement,
> à la "installed older version of the port must not break the build of a
> newer version"?  This is a frequent nuisance.


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