From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 26 21:06:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B82106564A; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:06:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F2988FC14; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcje9 with SMTP id je9so1878701bkc.13 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:06:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=dnl3b8+kpWay2QctGpyTPYE4cHCDa3Qse9xx04x0drs=; b=cqCRhHVEtUZKpEAm4WXsmf2mvkkiwJWfVdHV4Nf6hwR5Y1ODZTOUPtcmVHOW1w/PUy hvgUWAUwFM/y5zegZUU05T0hlVffhIGeuVCUrGea6LqVg7fpSolENuXxZUiEUlKjASvD PvOpQTAJRMn5pGr5n06SvodbK5sQYgzeh1GSb2pdMDrcfsRDt9Cp5K/riowHPxseXVcN u3Yne9tD6gxfbuHg/33igExxOtrehv803x25+D8YakPvWlEuHRMHY/RDMK+hF6m4O6US wL+GcyvrOv1IeFID2+ibHpLBqk74ISN7F1O3MQNxgnNXjBpvufKtHRQXFgL6cGKORZae ipuQ== Received: by 10.204.10.70 with SMTP id o6mr3249474bko.31.1346015201133; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:06:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.10.141 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:06:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <503A8F5B.9050706@shatow.net> References: <503A8EF7.4060105@FreeBSD.org> <503A8F5B.9050706@shatow.net> From: Chris Rees Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:06:10 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: gJfQy7r7yxZVWAZkdirhGkJz0OM Message-ID: To: Bryan Drewery Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can we please just remove the old Makefile headers? 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: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:06:49 -0000 On 26 August 2012 22:04, Bryan Drewery wrote: > On 8/26/2012 4:02 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >> The old Makefile headers, ala: >> >> # New ports collection makefile for: BIND 9.9.x >> # Date created: 27 January 2012 >> # Whom: dougb >> # >> # $FreeBSD: head/dns/bind99/Makefile 301487 2012-07-24 19:23:23Z dougb $ >> >> have not served a purpose for longer than almost anyone who has a ports >> commit bit has been around. My proposal is simple, let's remove >> everything before the # $FreeBSD$. >> >> In the past when this has been proposed the objection was that it would >> cause too much churn. If we had done this back when we had 5,000 ports >> then we would have solved the problem with less churn, and no drama for >> the 15,000 ports that followed. Every day we don't do this we make the >> "churn" problem worse, and deepen the roots of something that has no >> relevance. >> >> Can we please just deal with this now and be done with it? ... and yes, >> I am volunteering to help with and/or do the work myself. > > > Yes please. > > If we can't agree to mass delete them with churn, let's at least agree > to remove as we update ports, and in the template for new ports. > Now in the days of Subversion... we could do the entire tree in one lovely atomic commit! Chris