[macports-ports] branch master updated: collectd: update to 5.8.0
Rainer Müller
raimue at macports.org
Mon Apr 23 23:11:28 UTC 2018
On 2018-04-24 00:48, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:58:23 +0200 Rainer Müller
> <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
>> It is a bit suspicious that you made no changes to files/dep-gen.sh
>> in the port directory.
>>
>> The second half of the Portfile is fully generated by that shell
>> script, as collectd has *a lot* of variants for each of its
>> plugins. Updating that script is mostly manual work, based on the
>> output of './configure --help'. I somehow doubt that this version
>> of collectd does not have any new plugins or updated dependencies...
>
> Apologies. I didn't see any instructions to that effect. Might I
> suggest that we remove this from being openmaintainer given that
> simple version bumps won't work well without inside knowledge?
There is a box with a "WARNING" near the end, but probably we should
also place another one at the top.
> I'll go in now and try to fix what I damaged.
No worries, I am looking into it. The update is long overdue anyway.
> (As for why I was playing with this, it's the only client of
> protobuf-c...)
Rainer
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