thunderbird-i18n fails to extract | framework extract regression?

[Bryan Drewery]

On 2014-03-13 03:30, Matthias Andree wrote:
> I get this extract failure when trying to build thunderbird-i18n
> 24.3.0_1 from an up-to-date ports tree on 9.2-RELEASE amd64:
> 
>> ===>  Found saved configuration for thunderbird-i18n-24.3.0_1
>> ===> Fetching all distfiles required by thunderbird-i18n-24.3.0_1 for 
>> building
>> => SHA256 Checksum OK for xpi/thunderbird-i18n-24.3.0/de.xpi.
>> => SHA256 Checksum OK for xpi/thunderbird-i18n-24.3.0/fr.xpi.
>> => SHA256 Checksum OK for xpi/thunderbird-i18n-24.3.0/de.xpi.
>> => SHA256 Checksum OK for xpi/thunderbird-i18n-24.3.0/en-US.xpi.
>> => SHA256 Checksum OK for xpi/thunderbird-i18n-24.3.0/fr.xpi.
>> => SHA256 Checksum OK for xpi/thunderbird-i18n-24.3.0/pa-IN.xpi.
>> ===>   thunderbird-i18n-24.3.0_1 depends on executable: zip - found
>> Usage:
>>   List:    tar -tf <archive-filename>
>>   Extract: tar -xf <archive-filename>
>>   Create:  tar -cf <archive-filename> [filenames...]
>>   Help:    tar --help
>> *** [do-extract] Error code 1
> 
> EXTRACT_CMD is /usr/bin/tar.  Adding USES=zip:infozip to the port's
> Makefile appears to fix this, but this might be a regression in the
> framework that portmgr@ should investigate.
> 
> And I do seek out portmgr@ to deal with matters way more carefully.
> 
> We have had too many framework breakages recently, and I have a feeling
> that we have been rushing many changes of the "should work" category
> that would have required an -exp run...

Yes, we should do more exp-runs for sure. Not sure why some recent 
changes were not.

I am working on a project to make exp-runs more simple, automated, and 
allow anyone to queue and monitor the progress of their test. Should be 
ready to show more in a month or so.

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Regards,
Bryan Drewery