Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 14:24:22 +0200 From: Gyrd Thane Lange <gyrd-se@thanelange.no> To: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to use ports on 8.3 or earlier since r352986 Message-ID: <536CC8F6.1040509@thanelange.no> In-Reply-To: <495738D66545411BA78B31A6615EFA48@multiplay.co.uk> References: <495738D66545411BA78B31A6615EFA48@multiplay.co.uk>
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Den 09. mai 2014 14:01, skrev Steven Hartland: > Since the following commit ports is now broken on 8.3 and earlier. > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=352986 > > Now while 8.3 is now officially EOL as of 9 days ago such a > breakage so soon after the EOL seems very bad. > > Can we consider reverting this and only applying after a > decent amount of time to give people the chance to update > without preventing them from getting port security updates etc? As a work-around it may be possible to install the devel/bmake port and use it for port management. (Disclaimer: have not tried it, but it should be possible in theory.) Best regards, Gyrd ^_^ > Regards > Steve
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