Unable to install new dialog for ports on FreeBsd 7.0

[Bryan Drewery]

On 3/21/2013 8:42 AM, Peter Olsson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 07:17:12AM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>> On 3/21/2013 5:21 AM, Peter Olsson wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:49:29AM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 03:06:43PM +0530, Vikas Mahajan wrote:
>>>>> On 21 March 2013 13:26, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Try replacing the ports-mgmt/pkg/files/patch-Makefile by this one:
>>>>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/patch-Makefile
>>>>> There was no file named patch-Makefile. I created new file with contents as
>>>>> given by you, but still getting same error.
>>>>>
>>>>>> And tell me if it works.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But please notice that 7.x is EOLed 28 feb, more and more the ports tree
>>>>> will
>>>>>> get incompatible, and if we want to follow the direction for FreeBSD 10
>>>>> (replace
>>>>>> our make by bmake) we will need to a day or another break totally
>>>>> compatibility
>>>>>> with 7.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Consider upgrading your boxes.
>>>>> I repeated same steps on March 13th on some other box and everything works.
>>>>> Introduction of new dialog created problem. Steps, I followed to get latest
>>>>> ports:
>>>>> # portsnap fetch
>>>>> # mv /usr/ports /usr/ports_old
>>>>> # portsnap extract
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Vikas Mahajan
>>>>
>>>> I just tested on a 7.x it works out of the box. I don't know what is happening
>>>> on your system. or maybe portsnap for unknown reason is giving a wrong old
>>>> version.
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>> Bapt
>>>
>>> I get the sqrt error while trying to install dialog4ports on
>>> all my servers that are still running 7.4. I try installing
>>
>> 7.4 is EOL. If you want to continue using it you will need to use
>> RELEASE_7_EOL. head is not supported.
> 
> I know that, and I don't care about this error in
> my servers. They are scheduled for upgrade to 8 or 9.
> I just replied to Bapt's comment that he got it to work
> in 7.x, because I had seen the same problem as Vikas.
> I should have made this clear in my reply.
>  
>>> And, for the record, I'm really pi**ed off about the way that
>>> this clear POLA violation was introduced without mention in
>>> ports UPDATING. I ran portmaster upgrades in several servers
>>> (7.4, 8.3 and 9.0) yesterday, and all of them just skipped
>>> every config dialog with this error:
>>> env: /usr/local/bin/dialog4ports: No such file or directory
>>
>> UPDATING is for *manual port changes needed for upgrading*. This *was*
>> documented in CHANGES which is for ports infrastructure updates.
>>
>> It's not fair to call a bug a POLA violation. It should be fixed now.
> 
> So this env problem was just a bug in portmaster?
> Ok, I didn't know that, I thought it was a general
> problem with dialog4ports. Then I'm sorry I called
> it a POLA violation.

The problems with it building and missing should both be fixed now.
Those were bugs with the dialog4ports support.

> 
> However I still think that this change in the ports
> environment could have justified a mention in UPDATING,
> since CHANGES is aimed at developers and committers, not
> ordinary users like myself.

That's a fair point. I'll add an entry.

> 
> Peter Olsson
> 


-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery
bdrewery at freenode/EFNet

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