Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:18:38 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: "Drewery, Bryan" <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> Subject: Re: svn commit: r266760 - head/contrib/bmake Message-ID: <538FE18E.7050101@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <538F3918.6040002@FreeBSD.org> References: <201405271839.s4RIdDq8055387@svn.freebsd.org> <538D1DB7.7010508@FreeBSD.org> <20140603044638.81DF6580A1@chaos.jnpr.net> <20140603063512.GB45150@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <CAF6rxgnNLGWtGJwUY9E-MquqrOaU221QXjcow-sKCJLo4hxuLQ@mail.gmail.com> <538F3918.6040002@FreeBSD.org>
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On 6/4/14, 11:19 PM, Drewery, Bryan wrote: > On 6/4/14, 2:26 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> On 2 June 2014 23:35, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 09:46:38PM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 19:58:31 -0500, Bryan Drewery writes: >>>>> Not sure if anyone cares, but this change breaks all ports tree >>>>> checkouts from before 2014-05-05 on src head with this revision. >>>> >>>> Yes, an older ports tree would need an older bmake (or fmake). >>>> Are we saying ports is *not* ready for that hack to be removed? >>>> >>> >>> IMHO it is, just people has to be aware of that :) >> >> ports-announce@ is the correct location for this announcement :) >> > > I think that would just confuse people. I don't think this is worthy > of such a big announcement. I can write up something to current@ and > ports@ though. It's really only an issue if you are trying to use > older ports tree and why would you anyway in most cases? > We have a scenario where we check out a ports tree at one revision, but then need to slide parts of it back and forth to get to a specific revision of a port that we need. We can not affort to re-verrify every port revision every month, so it stays at an old revision generally but individual ports my upgrade if there is a security risk or may remain on anold revision if a newer version breaks thins for us. (it happens). If that breaks we will not be happy
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