Re: pkg_summary out of date due to Unrecognized archive format

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> > > > But on the official ftp server, midori and firefox, firefox10, and 
> > > > firefox36 do exist. But the pkg_summary doesn't list.
> > > > 
> > > > There is a mix of packages.
> > > 
> > > So it's a problem on the ftp server, it's out of sync with the official
> > > source. I guess there's a missing --delete in a rsync comamnd line.
> > 
> > That is a temporary fix (and maybe the best fix), but won't solve it 
> > until a policy is followed.
> > 
> > How do we restrict others from adding packages to same repo? (Like 
> > packages from pomegranate.tastylime.net.)
> > 
> > How do we restrict others from replacing the pkg_summary database? (Like 
> > I did.)
> 
> This is something for admins@, I guess. 

Okay. Maybe pkgsrc-pmc can define a policy for this (if not already 
done).

> > We do know where individual packages came from. +BUILD_INFO has 
> > BUILD_HOST. But maybe should have some statement about the collection as 
> > a whole.
> > 
> > And also since the original comments I saw were about firefox and 
> > midori, what can we do to make sure thay are built?
> 
> Look at the pbulk report from the pkgbuild hosts I post to
> pkgsrc-bulk%NetBSD.org@localhost

I can't find it yet.  Can someone point me to the failures that caused 
firefox packages to be missing for 6.0 amd64? 
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/tindex.html