From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 22:26:31 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 68333514 for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 22:26:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x235.google.com (mail-pa0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3CD112347 for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 22:26:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id kp14so5721953pab.12 for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 15:26:30 -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:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Dm7QGBVLjgB5axc6hC2OTHi6D1OKAxTeAzU1qmxomio=; b=Ql0lc9Zjt1tirCDCR8mTZhXAyUq0TCH8J8+USfnAxmyJPyTO5Z2P2kM1vKbnUa37uC wvOEER0QjomnuftBgSEi3vBcx/mYwa7FzqRvp8JEv3Mk+S92bSq2T5wcDy7cFoItA6rR bqI5bYBCAMrGd0qz8kw+g2lD3MfH/4+HeLVzKB19Q3GsvJwo5KcfC56tBUtD8/6kRU1y NxhquUOUUEsC+Y4R2rdTs0Pcl58uNvipeCUXl4Hkq5wbg/L4lQR0sGbjWrBnsKYjupu7 xSuCQ++MExEGam8+LzFxfLLHCemW0dZsm1Eq8l5q/BgB+QC7iITJoETiIMY7ImU5PG47 QbhA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.240.197 with SMTP id wc5mr16672421pac.78.1400970390790; Sat, 24 May 2014 15:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.66.73.34 with HTTP; Sat, 24 May 2014 15:26:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140524220103.GN2341@home.opsec.eu> References: <2318877.ATaMhzlr5B@desktop.reztek> <1521997.Va510XRLDQ@desktop.reztek> <534AD94A.2030105@marino.st> <2827292.qM76QHi0yk@workstation.reztek> <20140524180557.GF2341@home.opsec.eu> <20140524220103.GN2341@home.opsec.eu> Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 15:26:30 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: FwjOFHev6jeBuX6iZB0PV2hSJ3k Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion From: Kevin Oberman To: Kurt Jaeger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: Matthew Rezny , FreeBSD Ports ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 22:26:31 -0000 On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > I agree that there was a lot of change in the ports tree recently. > > But: There is a reason for this: The ports tree has to be cleaner > > so that it can provide better automatic processes to the users. > > It's not easy, but it's getting there. > > I found a presentation which really goes deep into the process > and reasoning behind going to pkgng and staging: > > http://www.slideshare.net/VsevolodStakhov/new-solver-for-freebsd-pkg > > Very cool stuff. > > As far as avoiding breaking things on older versions that you no longer have available or newer ones you have yet to install anywhere, remember redports,org . I find it invaluable for testing ports in a variety of environments. It currently supports 8.4, 9.2, 10.0, and HEAD on amd64 and i386. https://redports.org -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com