Who do I reach out to about broken/neglected ports?

[eldaemon]

audio/soundtouch won't fetch as the source URL changed, and the maintainer is unresponsive. I've written a patch which fixes it.

259731 – audio/soundtouch: Fails to fetch: GitLab: Service Unavailable (repository moved), FreeBSD distcache: size mismatch: expected 523946, actual 523846

bugs.freebsd.org

Not sure who to ask about merging that in, or changing port ownership.

Thanks!

 

[Alain De Vos]

I just compiled soundtouch and it succeeded.
Then i cleaned my distfiles&compilation was succes.
Try 2021Q4 , if that fails try main branch. It should work. Can you post your make log ?

 

[scottro]

If there's no port maintainer listed in the port's Makefile, you can fill out a problem report. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/

 

[SirDice]

Contact the freebsd-ports@ mailing list.

The time limit for a maintainer to respond to a PR is two weeks. After that period, if it is a minor change, any ports committer can commit the change. If it is a major change (e.g., would require a regression run), please contact portmgr first.

A maintainer who does not respond to any port issues for 3 months may be reset by any ports committer.

Policies of the Ports Management Team: Maintainers and Committers

FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

www.freebsd.org

 

[Alain De Vos]

There is currently in quarterly a size mismatch & checksum error for soundtouch & a path problem. But these can easily be patched.

 

[Alain De Vos]

I found 3 problems in the port which can all be solved following procedure below:

Problem 1.
The size is not ok.
To solve add the following at the end of /etc/make.conf

.if ${.CURDIR:M*/audio/soundtouch}
DISABLE_SIZE=yes
.endif

Problem 2.
The checksum is not ok.
To solve, go to /usr/ports/audio/soundtouch.

Use the following as distfile:

TIMESTAMP = 1617884272
SHA256 (soundtouch-soundtouch-762f56024b7ade81f6565903161dffec0ad4741e_GL0.tar.gz) = e4c54cb6088e1d483eeb16d1fd6fc2236d2c7cd86e7141411d150099fb8a1da6
SIZE   (soundtouch-soundtouch-762f56024b7ade81f6565903161dffec0ad4741e_GL0.tar.gz) = 0

Problem 3.
The path is not ok.
Go to /usr/ports/audio/soundtouch
make a directory work
mkdir work
goto work
cd work
create a softlink :

ln -s ./soundtouch-762f56024b7ade81f6565903161dffec0ad4741e-762f56024b7ade81f6565903161dffec0ad4741e ./soundtouch-762f56024b7ade81f6565903161dffec0ad4741e

Now make should finish succesfully.

 

[Alain De Vos]

Addendum , my procedure works manually, when you go to the directory and do a make ,make install.
It fails for poudriere , as you cannot intervene.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Cross-reference:

Manual intervenence for some ports. · Issue #964 · freebsd/poudriere

Not using poudriere you are able to fix problems. E.g. audio/soundtouch manually : See : https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/who-do-i-reach-out-to-about-broken-neglected-ports.83348/ But manual inte...

github.com

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Also:

Poudriere doesn't apply patches. It uses the ports infrastructure to apply patches through the patch target. Put your patches into the files/ directory of whatever port you want to patch.

Overlays might help in some cases.

<https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/wiki/poudriere-bulk.8-devel#synopsis>

<https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/wiki/poudriere-testport.8-devel>

 

[eldaemon]

Contact the freebsd-ports@ mailing list.

Policies of the Ports Management Team: Maintainers and Committers

FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

www.freebsd.org

Thank you! I reported this to them.