Thanks for the link, I have read it with great interest. The conclusion
is supporting the interpretation that a porter should always use the
release tarball if one is available. Makes a lot of sense to me. This
should be stated more clearly in the Porter's Handbook with a sentence
or two to tha
Hi,
This text has been recently suggested for discussion, which it still waits:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2020-July/119000.html
Maybe it can help with some of your concerns.
Regards, Sergei
On 28.07.2020 14:34, Marcel Bischoff wrote:
I'd like to know if I missed someth
Hi!
> Pre-built packages for 11 and 12 amd64 are available at
> https://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/libreoffice/
The downloads seems to have problems:
fetch
https://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/libreoffice/12_amd64/libreoffice-7.0.0.2.txz
libreoffice-7.0.0.2.txz 9% of 109 MB
Hi all,
I was initially involved in updating a port without maintainer
(multimedia/ffmpegthumbnailer), which was taken over by someone else.
I'm just starting out with porting and have updated several outdated
ones already. So that's fine.
What irritates me however, is the conflicting inform
Pre-built packages for 11 and 12 amd64 are available at
https://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/libreoffice/
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 9:42 PM Dima Panov wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> 7.0.0.RC2 is landed, release is around the corner.
>
> As always, please welcome to test.
>
> --
> WBR, Dima. (Desktop, KDE, X11,
The same problem is going to happen with mongodb36 I presume. It uses python2
to build, but does not need it to run.
Would it be possible to remove python2 as a RUN_DEPENDS at the end of 2020, but
keep it as a BUILD_DEPENDS in the ports framework?
This might save some usefull ports.
How are ot
Dear port maintainer,
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