From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 11:24:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5094A16A4CE; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:24:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0AD43D58; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:24:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id i14JOAVX012160; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:24:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id i14JOBIc018188; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:24:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:24:10 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20040204192410.GA18132@tao.thought.org> References: <1075883492.76993.65.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1075883492.76993.65.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: Julian Elischer cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: MAJOR changes to the ports system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 19:24:33 -0000 On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:31:32AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 03:22, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > > Sorry for the wide distribution, but it is critical that -CURRENT users > > > hear this. Two _MAJOR_ changes just went in to the ports tree that are > > > bound to cause some pain to -CURRENT users. > > > > > > > I'm glad to hear about this and I wouldn't mind hearing regularly about > > major events over in the ports tree. > > I've started doing this. The full summary was sent to ports@ and > ports-developers@, plus I added a copy to /usr/ports/CHANGES. This is > now the second major ports update I've summarized. Once the archives > get back up to speed, you should be able to see my previous summary. > A quick comment and question re the ports tree. Since the ./distinfo file began listing the "SIZE=" line, my portupgrade scripts (and fetch) have broken when I upgrade. I'm running 4.7PRE and 4.8PRE. (I'm trying to floppy install 5.2-RELEASE, as well.) Do I need to get a new version of fetch? Hand-deleting the SIZE line in the ./distinfo file is a temp workaround; is there a better way? ...I must have missed *something*........ gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix