What happened to the paraview pkg ?

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 10/13/15 08:22, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 2015/10/13 13:55, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> The pkg is no longer available as of yesterday. It was unceremoniously
>> de-installed during the 'pkg upgrade -y', w/ no reasons given. I still
>> have it in my ports tree, but I usually use pkg exclusively for package
>> maintanance, with the solitary exception of flash support. I could
>> obviously recreate paraview from the ports tree, but I was curious why
>> it got deleted from the pkg-repo.
> This usually just means the package failed to build in the latest pkg
> build run.  This can be for all sorts of reasons, including stuff like a
> dependency failing to build.
>
> Your best bet is to wait for a couple of hours or days until the ports
> get updated (and the next build run gets published if you're using
> generic packages) and try again.  Unless you'ld like to try digging into
> the reasons why paraview didn't get built and submit a fix, which you
> would be most welcome to have a go at.  (Beware: therein starts the
> slippery slope towards getting a commit bit...)
>
> Of course, if you're running your own poudriere, and the build is
> failing there but not on the FreeBSD pkg cluster, then you're going to
> need to work out what's wrong yourself.  Frequently this comes down to
> some customized set of options not behaving properly, and you can work
> around it by changing options settings.
>
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew


Well, speak of the devil, I just tried a 'pkg install -y paraview' & it 
worked (failed yesterday), *Booooyah* !!!! I kinda figured that (some 
build glitch) might be the problem, but wasn't sure, hence the squawking 
..... Thanks again.


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