freebsd stable - May 2005 - Acroread 7 port broken?

I just tried to install acroread 7 from the ports that I cvsup'd last night.
It tells me that it is marked broekn.
 
I assume it is broken, but does anyone know when it will be fixed?
 
 

		
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ya hoo,
> It tells me that it is marked broekn.
> I assume it is broken,
A fair assumption in the circumstances.
> but does anyone know when it will be fixed?
Shortly after you install it, fix the packing list error, open a PR with
the patch and get the patch commited.

To help you get started, you can install with DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES to
get the files on the system and the app working (which it does), eg.

# portupgrade --new --recursive --sudo --verbose --make-args \
  DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes print/acroread7

You can now find all the files which were installed and compare them to the
packing list, eg.

# find /usr/local /compat/linux/usr/local -newer \
/usr/ports/distfiles/acroread/AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1.i386.rpm

# pkg_info -L acroread7-7.0.0

Now you can fix the port by making a copy of the old one, fixing the
packaging list - see PLIST in Makefile and other ports' use of PFILES(+)=,
eg.

# cd /usr/ports/print
# tar -cf acroread7.tar acroread7
# mv acroread7 acroread7-7.0.0
# tar -xvf acroread7.tar
# cd acroread7
Fix Makefile (including removing BROKEN and adding PORTREVISION=1) and any
other files, test install, deinstall and run "portlint -A" and fix any
issues it gives
# make clean
# cd ..
# diff -ruN acroread7-7.0.0 acroread7 > acroread7-7.0.0,1.diff

Send the patch (acroread7-7.0.0,1.diff) with send-pr (or gtk-send-pr), to,
with or instead of the MAINTAINER (if he does not respond).

References:

"FreeBSD Porter's Handbook" - 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html
"Current FreeBSD problem reports" -
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi
The CVS history of the port, which you should read before doing anything -
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/print/acroread7/

-Andrew-
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On Tuesday 17 May 2005 11:21 am, ya hoo wrote:
> I just tried to install acroread 7 from the ports that I cvsup'd last
> night. It tells me that it is marked broekn.
>
> I assume it is broken, but does anyone know when it will be fixed?
>
>
There must be something else going on. I just cvsuped and had no problem 
building acroreader. It was broken a while back but the current version 
isn't broken.

Kent
-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html

ya hoo wrote:
> I just tried to install acroread 7 from the ports that I cvsup'd last
night.
> It tells me that it is marked broekn.
>  
> I assume it is broken, but does anyone know when it will be fixed?
Upgrade your ports tree again. There was a commit today which is 
supposed to unbreak the port.

See http://www.freshports.org/print/acroread7

Bj?rn