FreeLists / beports / [beports] Re: Ports not in Gentoo Portage

[Brecht Machiels <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 23:19 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am 14.04.2008 um 10:07 schrieb Brecht Machiels:
> > I might have been a bit too pessimistic about Haiku's progress when I
> > set up the BePorts website. That's why it's not called HaikuPorts.
> > Perhaps it's a good idea if I change the wiki pages to emphasize Haiku
> > ports (make Haiku the primary target)?
> 
> How would you do that? Reorder the table?

It's mainly the main wiki page that requires changing... not that there
needs to be changed alot. The table could be reordered too.

> > I have been trying to build Haiku on my PC (Ubuntu), but svn failed
> > twice to fetch the buildtools repository :/ It seemed to stall on the
> > same file on both tries. (It also stalled once on fetching the main
> > Haiku tree. A retry was successful though.) Is this a known problem  
> > with
> > Belios repositories?
> 
> BerliOS was down most of the weekend... ;-)
> Apart from that, it works the whole way through for me, but then again  
> my transfers are not as big.

After a few more tries (manually doing incremental updates and making a
backup of the partial checkouts), I was finally able to check out the
buildtools. I hope to build Haiku soon :)

Regards,
Brecht


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