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Date:      Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:41:12 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/libX11 Makefile distinfo manpages pkg-plist ports/x11/libX11/files patch-src_ImUtil.c
Message-ID:  <20070606214112.GB6716@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1181165084.76200.1.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
References:  <200706061625.l56GP3lo043614@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070606200421.GA5453@rot13.obsecurity.org> <1181165084.76200.1.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>

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On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:24:44PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Kris Kennaway p??e v st 06. 06. 2007 v 16:04 -0400:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:25:03PM +0000, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > > pav         2007-06-06 16:25:03 UTC
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     x11/libX11           Makefile distinfo manpages pkg-plist 
> > >   Removed files:
> > >     x11/libX11/files     patch-src_ImUtil.c 
> > >   Log:
> > >   - Update to 1.1.2
> > >   - Don't remove lib/X11, it's in mtree
> > 
> > BTW, we had decided not to do minor updates to the X.org ports without
> > a good reason.  The disruption caused by frequent tiny updates is
> > tremendous.
> 
> Why not? There are no consequences in updating to dot-dot releases here.
> I was told by flz and anholt that I'm free to help out keeping X ports
> up to date.

The main consequences are:

* Forcing the package clusters to frequently rebuild all of X, slowing
down all package builds and the rate at which we can do other testing
on pointyhat.

* The inevitable problems with commits to "deep" ports like this one
which will take out most of the ports tree when they fail to build,
leading to yet more delays in publication of usable package sets.

What was decided was to only update in batches when x.org makes a new
"kamikaze" release (or whatever they are calling it ;), unless there
is a really good reason to update a port otherwise.

Kris




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