pkgsrc and 2.8

[Francois Tigeot]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 07:11:27PM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Sun, October 17, 2010 4:24 pm, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 12:21:24PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >>
> >> :
> >> :The 2010Q3 release of pkgsrc has been branched - how close are we to
> >> :branching DragonFly 2.8?  I'd like to get both building for the pkgsrc
> >> :binaries.
> >>
> >>     I will branch 2.8.0 this evening.  We will bump it to 2.8.1 and
> >>     resync from master when we actually release (if we actually
> >>     release <--- only a partial joke there).
> >
> > Even though it is not really a DragonFly issue per se, I feel the
> > gettext-lib
> > bug in pkgsrc is a nasty show-stopper.
> >
> > With this bug, a 64-bit system with a non-default locale is simply
> > unusable.
> >
> > What can we do if the fix is not committed to pkgsrc ?
> 
> Have you tried asking on any of the pkgsrc mailing lists?  I daresay it's
> still there just cause people don't realize it's there. The last time I
> tried poking pkgsrc people for a particular problem (yay alliteration), I
> got results.

The maintainer has been set dfly-pkg-people. I hoped there was some sort of
local team behind this address.
I'll try to get things moving by asking on pkgsrc-users next.

-- 
Francois Tigeot