Re: Proposal to fix postgresql package maintainance nightmare

2015-08-04 Thread Michael Grünewald
On 21 Jul 2015, at 11:46, Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org wrote: - Impossible to have tools from both old and new version at the same time (which is necessary to upgrade db and prepare upgrades of db) … Could not jails be used to solve these issues by running the two (…) required

Ports quarterly branches

2015-01-08 Thread Michael Grünewald
Since one year or so, FreeBSD ports are branched quarterly to provide stable branches. Where can I read more on this topic? How does it affect my work as a port maintainer? -- Thanks! Michael ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: OCAML version 3 (legacy)

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Grünewald
Hi Euan, I am replying to you and to the list po...@freebsd.org, because the question might be of general interest: On 7 Aug 2014, at 20:17, Euan Thoms wrote: [I need to port some third party software zith OCaml 3.X]. Is it possible that you or somebody else could make a legacy port for

Re: OCaml 4?

2013-11-07 Thread Michael Grünewald
John Marino wrote: I was thinking the holdup was on your end,[…] Has the whole thing stalled? 11 months to get a PR through when the submitter is responsive seems excessive to me, maybe somebody else should take over the PR if bf@ is too busy. It looks like it is stalled. It would actually

Re: OCaml 4?

2013-11-06 Thread Michael Grünewald
Hi Rui! Sorry that I did not take time to answer your previous EMail. It seems you did not check outstanding PRs or overlooked this one: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/173364 In short, there is a candidate upgrade in the ports, since quite a while. While I did not hear

Re: OCaml 4?

2013-11-06 Thread Michael Grünewald
Hi John, John Marino wrote: The other thing to note is that DragonFly Ports (dports) has had ocaml 4 and related ocaml upgrades for 9 months. There's really no need to reinvent this, just take the dports versions. I am so glad we didn't wait around for those PRs. It seems dports has ocaml

Re: OCaml 4?

2013-11-06 Thread Michael Grünewald
John Marino wrote: On 11/6/2013 21:02, Michael Grünewald wrote: It seems dports has ocaml 4.00.1 while I prepared a 4.01.0, if you test it, your feddback would be welcome! Surely dports could be updated to ocaml 4.01.0 as easily as changing the PORTVERSION and regenerating the distinfo file

Re: Ocaml ports needs love

2013-06-25 Thread Michael Grünewald
Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:09:34PM +, b.f. wrote: Probably creating a ocaml@ team would be a good idea? It feels good to see that more people are willing to improve the support of OCaml in FreeBSD. Besides maintaining individual ports, we also want to integrate

Re: Status of ports update submitted 2 months ago

2013-01-05 Thread Michael Grünewald
Hello b.f. b.f. wrote: Michael wrote: 2 months ago I submitted four port updates related to the ocaml/language. The PRs used to be listed by portsmon but I recently noticed they disappeared. [1] I didn't see these -- I'll try to resolve at least 173364 and 173453. that is great, thank you

Re: Status of ports update submitted 2 months ago

2013-01-05 Thread Michael Grünewald
Hi Mark, thank you for your feedback! Mark Linimon wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 11:11:54PM +0100, Michael Grünewald wrote: The PRs used to be listed by portsmon but I recently noticed they disappeared. [1] portsmon is running off of a stale mirror of the database. I keep forgetting

Status of ports update submitted 2 months ago

2013-01-04 Thread Michael Grünewald
] http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portsconcordanceformaintainer.py?maintainer=michael.grunewald -- Best Regards, Michael Grünewald ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail

Installing makefiles for BSD Make

2010-07-23 Thread Michael Grünewald
Dear list, I want to port some software using BSD Make makefiles to build. I should probably port this collection of makefiles itself and I wish to know what is the best way to let make(1) find them. I think these files should go in ${LOCALBASE}/share/mk but maybe someone has a more