From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 31 14:44:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15798 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:44:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA15766 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:44:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 22137 invoked from network); 31 Mar 1998 22:53:09 -0000 Received: from localhost.simon-shapiro.org (HELO sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost.simon-shapiro.org with SMTP; 31 Mar 1998 22:53:09 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-032398 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5331.891379763@time.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:53:09 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: editor/nedit patching fails Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 31-Mar-98 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Which indicates environmental deltas. If I follow the procedure and it >> breaks, the procedure is broken. Either by not checking or by not >> setting >> the environment properly. Example, if I supposedly have the wrong >> version >> of patch(1), then the port is sensitive to patch version and should >> check >> for it. > > Or you need to make sure that your installation of 3.0 is a _clean_ > (that is, from scratch) installation since that's the "target market" > at which 3.0 will eventually be aimed. There's so much that's changed > between 2.x and 3.0, it might not even be possible to offer an > automated upgrade for it (at least not one without lots of specialized > intelligence, anyway). That was already done. Each pass through the ports make contaminates the system further. Your proposal (start from scratch) is the M$ support solution. Not acceptable in production environment :-( ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message