Problem with liveupdate (zlib)

[Ryan Schmidt]

Sn Aug 2, 2007, at 05:20, Simon Ruderich wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Reading portlivecheck.tcl, I see that if the homepage is not  
>> available,
>> it already prints "cannot check if $portname was updated ($error)".
>>
>> It already prints the regex if the regex does not match. I  
>> suggested 2
>> weeks ago that the regex should always be printed, and since there  
>> have
>> been no objections since then, I implemented that now (r27379).
>>
>> This is all in debug mode only.
>
> Thanks for this fix, I hope it makes it into the next release.

So do I.

>> Yes, I found the revision that broke it (r26041), Kevin Ballard  
>> provided
>> a fix, and I tested and committed it (r27079).
>
> Also thanks for this fix, but we should remember it means all the
> portfiles will need to be updated after this fix when the next version
> of macports is released.

Only portfiles whose livecheck regexen have been updated to work with  
the "broken" livecheck code will again have to be updated to work  
with the "fixed" code. Portfiles which were never initially modified  
will work as usual again once 1.5.1 is released.

>> Trac is our bug tracking system, and the mailing list is our  
>> discussion
>> system, so it seems to me that bugs are properly reported to Trac.
>> However, the reporter must remember to Cc the appropriate people,
>> otherwise nobody is notified of the ticket's existence. Also we don't
>> have a good system in place for ports that are unmaintained.
>
> I'm not sure if this is mentioned in the documentation but it should
> also be displayed on the "New ticket" page. So it's clear for the
> reporter of the ticket to add this.

It is quite clearly mentioned in the TracTicketing wiki page.

>> If you find forgotten patches in Trac, and the ticket is not  
>> assigned to
>> someone and the port has no maintainer, email the list with the  
>> ticket
>> URL and someone can have a look at them and commit them. If the  
>> ticket
>> is assigned to someone, email that person. If the port has a  
>> maintainer,
>> email that person.
>
> I just did some search in Trac and send the links for the tickes to
> macports-dev. I also CCed the maintainers if the ports had one.

Thanks, I'll have a look at those.