Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:14:15 +0200 From: Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> To: mike new <mike@reifenberger.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cad/kicad separate package for older versions Message-ID: <CAFYkXjn37x4AvPWbNFz3ag4JNRRDpVQLZvjFCOnbc1ZLQiez2g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4e570039-1ae7-4044-ac50-a9d62666e985@reifenberger.com> References: <CAFYkXj=0EiNFtQtHZ7_hK=LfS%2BZu62cYKzzTu6Mcn5Uih37ciQ@mail.gmail.com> <4e570039-1ae7-4044-ac50-a9d62666e985@reifenberger.com>
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Thank you Mike :-) In case of KiCAD additional problem is they constantly change file formats makes it self-incompatible by design.. just hope it will change one day :-( Good news is the fix showed up in the kicad master, just tried and fix works, 10.0.2 will be out soon :-) For the time we can bump kicad-devel to: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/commit/f21aa0db5a34c847f8d654f8ff2b746895aecd90 Thank you for this kicad-devel port, we can simply update commit and build and test, very convenient :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 4:30 PM mike new <mike@reifenberger.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > at least for the *-devel ports I do maintain, its not feasible to maintain several versions of a port just in case a newer version has bugs. > > If a newer version is released its up to the upstream vendor to provide the proper release management. > > The exception is sometimes if mayor incompatibilities affect depent ports like qt5/qt6, ffmpeg, ... > > > Furthermore the *-devel ports are by definition bleeding edge... > > > greetings > > --- > > Michael > > > On 4/24/26 05:51, Tomek CEDRO wrote: > > Hello world :-) > > The KiCAD port has been updated to version 10.0.1 big thank you! > > Except there is a blocker bug in pcbnew that make it impossible to set > track width as it crashes: > > https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/work_items/23708 > > Many people reported this issue, including one from FreeeBSD, but the > issue is closed without resolution o_O > > My question is would it be possible to create a separate package for > older release of KiCAD in case of such situations so it would be > possible to fallback to older release in case of current release is > broken (which happens quite often)? I am aware and don't want to even > mention that older version may not open newer design files lol. > > I have verified with cad/kicad-devel and the issue is still there.. > and I was supposed to start pcb cncing in a few hours o_O > > The only quick fix for this is to have older version in a separate package? > > Thanks :-) > Tomek > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info >home | help
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