From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 11 22:16:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F79A106566C for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:16:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964B415009E; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EBD9EA3.90409@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:16:03 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111110 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: Use of newest version number such as 10.0 instead of current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:16:05 -0000 On 11/11/2011 04:29, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > pkg_add -r * > > is giving error about directory not found . > > > This is preventing testing and / or using efforts . I see your perspective on this, but package support for HEAD (N-current) is always done on a "best effort" basis, and is incredibly likely to be broken during a new major branch release cycle no matter what. Also, because HEAD is a rapidly moving target the preferred way to deal with ports is to compile the ports, not to use packages at all. Or, to use packages when they exist, but compile everything else. The PACKAGESITE environment variable can help with that. Your point that "it should be easier" is well taken, I think moreso for the RCs than for HEAD. There has been some discussion about how to update the logic for pkg_add, but I'm not sure that symlinks are going to be the answer. Doug -- "We could put the whole Internet into a book." "Too practical." Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/