From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 15:34:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825C616A41F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:34:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9592743D45 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:34:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2006 15:34:37 -0000 Received: from p50911460.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO m2a2.dyndns.org) [80.145.20.96] by mail.gmx.net (mp027) with SMTP; 24 Jan 2006 16:34:37 +0100 X-Authenticated: #428038 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07783201187 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:34:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (m2a2.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06340-16 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:34:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id BFEE0201188; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:34:33 +0100 (CET) From: Matthias Andree To: ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060123234606.GA32617@soaustin.net> (Mark Linimon's message of "Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:46:06 -0600") References: <20060123234606.GA32617@soaustin.net> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:34:33 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at emma.line.org X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] recent instability on ports for 4.X X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:34:39 -0000 linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) writes: > The most recent checkin of bsd.*.mk has caused some instability which we > (the portmgr team) now think we've fixed the critical parts of. 'make > search' is still broken and we are working on that. This only affects 4.X. > > This was the first time we've tested a patchset on 5-exp instead of 4-exp > and of course this enraged Murphy (he of Murphy's Law) and so he came and > bit us pretty hard. > > As well, a few ports that were doing non-standard things with USE_RC_SUBR > were broken by this same checkin, and we are working with the maintainers > on those ports as we find them. > > Apologies for the instability. Coming from Linux for the most part where even kernel hackers don't care for what they messed up, I'm quite impressed someone takes responsibility for third-party ports@ annoyances. Thanks a lot! This is what makes FreeBSD surroundings a friendly place. -- Matthias Andree