ports/171903: Observium port should only provide dependencies

[Harlan Stenn]

>Number:         171903
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Observium port should only provide dependencies
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 24 02:20:02 UTC 2012
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Harlan Stenn
>Release:        FreeBSD 9
>Organization:
NTP
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>Description:
The observium port is old and apparently sucks down an old source tarball.

The observium folks are most adamant that one should not build snapshots of their code, but they also don't seem to think that manually dealing with dependencies is a big deal either.

I recommend that the observium port be renamed to observium-deps (or something) and that it only make sure the necessary dependent packages are installed.

>From this point, one should be able to either check out or upgrade observium from their SVN repo.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try and build the observium port, and you'll notice you cannot build the result with the instructions provided on the observium site.
>Fix:


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