AWSTATS Error & Resolution

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 6/9/2004 3:55 AM Matthew Seaman wrote:

>On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:35:36PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>  
>
>>After upgrading perl from 5.8.2 to 5.8.4, following the instructions in 
>>/usr/ports/UPDATING, I found awstats-6.0_1 no longer worked.  I ran 
>>awstats.pl interactively and received the following error:
>>
>>Bizarre copy of ARRAY in aassign at /path/to/awstats.pl line 8707
>>
>>After some checking, I found this issue was fixed in awstats.pl revision 
>>1.747.  I downloaded the most current revision (1.755) and replaced the 
>>revision that's included with the port.  This seems to solve the 
>>problem.  YMMV.
>>
>>Is it appropriate to send a problem report about this?  I've never sent 
>>one so I want to be sure before bugging someone.
>>
>>Hopefully this post will save others from having to research and resolve 
>>this issue.
>>    
>>
>
>You aren't the only one to notice this: it's being discussed over on
>freebsd-ports at ... at the moment.  See the thread that starts with:
>
>    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-June/013104.html
>
>which generally means a fix will soon be forthcoming.
>
>Generally in these sort of cases your first point of contact should be
>the port's maintainer.  Find that by:
>
>    % cd /usr/ports/www/awstats
>    % make -V MAINTAINER
>
>Now just sending an e-mail to the maintainer usually suffices, and
>most maintainers will be happy to fix things and help you out
>generally.
>
>However, if the maintainer has an @FreeBSD.org address (including
>various mailing list addresses like x11 at FreeBSD.org, perl at FreeBSD.org,
>ports at FreeBSD.org) then you can use send-pr(1) to send in a bug report
>- preferably including a fix. If the port is unmaintained
>(ie. maintainer is ports at FreeBSD.org) then you may well get asked to
>become the maintainer...  Also use send-pr(1) if e-mail to the
>maintainer bounces or you get no reply after a reasonable time
>(ie. two weeks) -- mention the problem in the PR you send.  See
>
>    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-maintainer.html
>
>	Cheers,
>
>	Matthew
>  
>
Thanks for your reply.  Oh there is so much to learn... :)

Drew

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