svn commit: r367789 - in head: . dns dns/posadis games games/linux-savage net net/etherboot

John Marino freebsd.contact at marino.st
Wed Sep 10 06:01:25 UTC 2014


On 9/10/2014 06:14, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> On 9 Sep, 2014, at 18:48, John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> Author: marino
>> Date: Tue Sep  9 22:48:40 2014
>> New Revision: 367789
>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/367789
>> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r367789/
>>
>> Log:
>>  Remove three unrelated unstaged ports
>>
>> Deleted:
>>  head/dns/posadis/
> 
> I remember trying to work on this one a bit ago. IIRC there’s a library in devel, poslib I think?, that existed only for posadis, but was preventing posadis from building. I think it needed syslimits.h anywhere in the public headers, and had some other weird failure.
> 
> If those problems haven’t been fixed, is it worth deprecating poslib too?
> 

posadis has essentially been abandoned for 10 years.  The last activity
on the SF source was about 6 weeks after the last release.  There are
other dns implementations that are still maintained, so yes, I think
poslib should be deprecated.  I didn't know it existed.

John






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