Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 00:04:29 -0400 From: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-announce@freebsd.org Subject: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Re: [HEADS UP] Change to the header in ports Makefiles Message-ID: <20120902040429.GH14617@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20120901064258.GA46114@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <20120901064258.GA46114@freefall.freebsd.org>
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--Zp4J6pIOF3L3ZAe7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 06:42:58AM +0000, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: > An idea has been floating around for some time, and it was brought up aga= in > on the ports@ mailing list recently, please remove the extraneous header > information from the Makefile, leaving only the $FreeBSD$ id on the first > line. >=20 > It is an idea that is long overdue, so from now on, the other fives lines > shall be removed. >=20 > We do request that this be done sparingly in the short term, as we do not > want to cause any additional churn on the repo as we approach our upcoming > Ports Feature Freeze, still tentatively scheduled for September 7. >=20 > So please proceed only on existing updates. Please do not do any sweeping > commits until we have the ports tree stablised post 9.1 tagging. Also bear > in mind that Redports/QAT queues a job for every change done to a Makefil= e, > we do not want to overburden the QAT at this time. It is important to all= ow > this service to run at peek efficiency at this time to ensure it's full > potential as we approach the upcoming Feature Freeze. >=20 > The new look of the Makefile has been document in the Porter's Handbook, > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/quick-p= orting.html#PORTING-MAKEFILE. >=20 > The next item on the todo list is to update devel/newfile for those that = do > a port create. >=20 >=20 > Thomas > on behalf of portmgr@=20 >=20 >=20 > http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2012/09/01/change-to-the-header-in-po= rts-makefiles/ Cease fire on stripping header information. Seems there is more to the issue that we will need to resolved before we proceed, so please update ports normally, please leave the header intact. If you have already stripped some headers, leave it alone for now. Thomas --=20 Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe --Zp4J6pIOF3L3ZAe7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQQtrNAAoJENk3EJekc8mQDcEIAJPXB/0XhNMhb8G/0yhY3bNF VTt065q9VIHfMpX1i6NDoaqWIViXl5kd+Tmx5JKUs3snhBmr+Io8rGr4DVFbHsue r4f1APHAG6WScicPPjhi/Drvc+6T4poIHSnUnOl+Qo2Sl87wM1nnbN03/WSQVukd 5aBV4M/XgA16U4EhmnrM6Gc1yRUaphwrC8mlk1Go27o+NxLyiY0JuTD365eY1js2 JYDPbm34UWZT5S9n0H9XFYFTt8PP/MNgdf86eHOW7lltg3Vxe9zaQSqLIFRvClEY VbdknIg59fkxWWKZc+ItYuOyCmBNEmuVFkncgCBmgP221UAmSLerr/Wbd9e8qPU= =MlcA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Zp4J6pIOF3L3ZAe7--
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