Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:56:55 -0400 From: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@goodking.ca> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports FreeBSD-7-EoL message (was: Re: [cfr] patch to clean up old Linux ports) Message-ID: <20130327005655.GM60791@goodking.ca> In-Reply-To: <20130309235133.000016ac@unknown> References: <513A0C04.8090907@freebsd.org> <20130309121625.00004279@unknown> <513B2CB3.1020405@passap.ru> <20130309141403.0000340e@unknown> <513B3D0E.2030603@passap.ru> <513BA5E7.40802@freebsd.org> <CAF6rxgnS6Qfprbh6ZjvJosrUj8dXda9G=k%2Bkd5cUc3_E8t8j6Q@mail.gmail.com> <20130309235133.000016ac@unknown>
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--rdbbj4JunmnVtKq/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 11:51:33PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 17:08:00 -0500 > Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote: >=20 > > On 9 March 2013 16:13, Ren=E9 Ladan <rene@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > > > I strongly attend to agree with Boris here. If we want to continue > > > warning 7.X users for a while (1,6,12 months?) then it should both > > > be much clearer and easier to just put a conditional IGNORE in > > > bsd.port.mk than in thousands of individual (not only Linux) ports. > >=20 > > +1. The place to protect against user error is not in the Linux > > specific portion of the tree. >=20 > As I understand the EoL announcement the bsd.port.mk message would be > "it may or may not work" and the port-build should not bail out. If my > understanding is wrong, it would be nice if portmgr (CCed) could > clarify this. Not guaranteed to work is the implication. Contributors/committers are no longer obligated to make things work for 7.X. >=20 > The linux message is clearly "this will not work anymore" and the > port-building should stop. As such the linux part should behave like > IGNORE (BROKEN =3D build from time to time on the port build cluster in > case it compiles again; IGNORE =3D do not even give it a try). >=20 > Bye, > Alexander. >=20 > --=20 > http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 > http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137 --=20 Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe --rdbbj4JunmnVtKq/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRUkPXAAoJENk3EJekc8mQMM4H/16a92X7FadSzx818gErTORa JX/JT3Qf+uqycxHPQFUbtT60WsY8MiCtI/1vdSe3wQ27tVgzFu1OeZ/FZeqRsvH9 L1J0S2gpfpeau5MuN5pLqMIgJaJa00c62XBNpdkZ5Ff2dtu5SOLjTGv/k840CQIK azdp6/AHf9rBMOrALPOFyr8vZdAozIRqRKZT3tK398jabUjqutmhR3UbXS1D82DN 9T5aVnQNuIzfQhfyy+y6KsAkF37GLHGtBqoMkSLhSiUTrL5HvwdYIbYQ8qtUegrr B9nEVqQMNkvWcSqf4lGMMsPb92JBxW9TiX0A2dkJeeuIANzDxu11c/8GGOFjPaA= =EnHx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rdbbj4JunmnVtKq/--
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