Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:58:37 +1100 From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-10 -> FreeBSD-9.9 ? Message-ID: <20111025215837.B6AA615DE789@drugs.dv.isc.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:45:23 PDT." <20111025184523.GC47524@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <CAJ-Vmom27Z3pkbVyFhsmdt60KDSsxNmT4jLa=dQJrdUGLUNqoA@mail.gmail.com> <20111024230623.GB14274@dragon.NUXI.org> <201110250918.28709.hselasky@c2i.net> <20111025184523.GC47524@dragon.NUXI.org>
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In message <20111025184523.GC47524@dragon.NUXI.org>, "David O'Brien" writes:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:18:28AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 October 2011 01:06:23 David O'Brien wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:04:13AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > > > Just an idle comment - why don't we just rename FreeBSD-10 to
> > > > FreeBSD-9.9 for now, and give the ports/developers some time to "fix"
> > > > bad autoconf/automake scripts?
> > > > That way -current can still be used for testing/development.
> > >
> > > I figured someone else would respond by now...
> > >
> > > \aol{me too!}
> > >
> > > (though I suggest 9.99 as a value we'd never hit)
> > >
> > > I've made this change on all my local systems.
> >
> > Why not use 9.5.x ?
> > Whould give more number space to increment?
>
> Eh? Sorry I don't follow -- why do we need to increment?
>
> "9.99" is a temperary work around to buy us just a few months time to fix
> ports. Such a band-aid should not exist long enough to need to increment
> anything.
>
> We mostly just need to not fall into things like:
>
> case $host_os in
> [...]
> freebsd1*)
> ld_shlibs=no
> ;;
> [...]
>
> in 'configure'.
Ok, so what's the minimum versions of the auto* and libtoo* that are
fixed so I can ship BIND9 w/o freebsd1*) in configure? If I need to
bump the tool versions I want to do it once.
Mark
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