Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:09:30 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c Message-ID: <XFMail.010313170930.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010313165058.A86712@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 14-Mar-01 David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:36:07AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> 2. In the case when small FreeBSD-specific bug found and fixed you will >> not have to re-download the whole thing. > > I don't follow you. For the most part, the only thing a port gets from > FreeBSD is shared libs. If you fixed a bug in the port itself, then yes, > you need the distfile. That is his point, if a new local patch is added to fix a bug, you've already downloaded the source once, so you don't need to download anything except the new patch. >> 4. You can compile packages for the several different releases, say >> -current for your notebook, -stable for a production machine 3-stable >> for your grandma etc. > > This does not hold with your example. So don't bring up such cases. Actually, this isn't that farfetched. If you NFS mount /usr/ports and share it across several machines, for example. I do this at home where I have 2 machines running -stable and 1 machine running -current. > Nor are any of these cases ones Paul is mentioning.... In 99.9% of the cases that Paul is mentioning, all one needs to do is 'cvs up' in ports/blah/foo/ (some things like kde and gnome don't do as well with this, but those aren't server apps) possibly dink with /var/db/port.mkversion, 'cvs up' ports/Mk, and rebuild and install the port. If for some reason it does fail, one can always file a PR if one is not able to fix it on one's own. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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