Re: Updated versions of erlang-runtime25 and elixir-devel

I haven’t had time yet to check other ports that might be effected by these, but started two pull requests to start tracking them. I’m hoping to do some more building/testing after work this evening.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/146
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/147



> On Jan 23, 2023, at 8:16 AM, Mike Jakubik <mike.jakubik@swiftsmsgateway.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just wanted to let you know that I myself and our company heavily depend on erlang/elixir/rabbitmq. If i can be of any assistance in testing, I'd gladly help.
> 
> Thank You.
> 
> 
> 
> ---- On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 21:57:54 -0500 Eric Saxby <sax@livinginthepast.org <mailto:sax@livinginthepast.org>> wrote ---
> 
> This all makes sense. Thanks for the explanations. I was tempted to update lang/elixir, but based on downstream dependencies will stick to elixir-devel for now. 
> 
> Once I verify no dependency problems and rebuild otp with 25.2.1 I’ll open a PR in GitHub and then open a bugzilla ticket. Probably will be an evening this week. 
> 
> I don’t currently use RabbitMQ for work or for fun, so don’t have a good setup for testing updates. I’ve considered getting back into it, so maybe later in the year could contribute patches or test things out for others. 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 3:13 PM Dave Cottlehuber <dch@freebsd.org <mailto:dch@freebsd.org>> wrote:
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> e s
> On Sat, 21 Jan 2023, at 21:45, Eric Saxby wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I’ve been working on building updated versions of erlang (25.2) and 
> > elixir (1.14.3) for myself using poudriere. I was hoping to contribute 
> > my updates back to the main freebsd-ports tree, and saw that this email 
> > address is listed as the maintainer of both packages.
> >
> > Please let me know if my patches would be useful to you. I can either 
> > point you to my fork, submit pull requests, or figure out how to format 
> > patches to submit in the freebsd bug tracker.
> >
> > I see that erlang 25.2.1 was just released, so I think I’d update to 
> > that prior to submitting a patch.
> >
> > Best,
> > Eric
> 
> welcome, Eric.
> 
> That would be great!
> 
> Ideally you'd drop a bugzilla ticket with the port name as subject, add 
> either a patch from git, or just link to your PR.
> 
> The most important thing is to check that downstream dependencies aren't
> broken bythe updates, if you're using poudriere this is pretty easy:
> 
> Either `pkg rquery %ro lang/erlang` to generate the build list, and
>  https://www.freshports.org/lang/erlang for a graphical list.
> 
> For elixir, we can bump lang/elixir-devel freely, but lang/elixir is
> a build-time dependency of net/rabbitmq for the moment, and a few other
> things as well, like hex, rebar etc.
> 
> RabbitMQ should really be converted over to the Generic Unix version,
> it would be a lot simpler to build & deploy, and also should remove
> the reliance on ports elixir as an install.
> 
> https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/download/v3.11.7/rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-3.11.7.tar.xz
> 
> A+
> Dave