From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 03:18:56 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0F70D0C; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 03:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E26F2433; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 03:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (etroy.elischer.org [121.45.232.70]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s553Iiwk092884 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 4 Jun 2014 20:18:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <538FE18E.7050101@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:18:38 +0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Drewery, Bryan" , Eitan Adler , Baptiste Daroussin Subject: Re: svn commit: r266760 - head/contrib/bmake References: <201405271839.s4RIdDq8055387@svn.freebsd.org> <538D1DB7.7010508@FreeBSD.org> <20140603044638.81DF6580A1@chaos.jnpr.net> <20140603063512.GB45150@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <538F3918.6040002@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <538F3918.6040002@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, "Simon J. Gerraty" X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 03:18:56 -0000 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 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