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Date:      Thu, 05 Jun 2014 10:38:56 -0500
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r266760 - head/contrib/bmake
Message-ID:  <53908F10.20204@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <538FE18E.7050101@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> <538FE18E.7050101@freebsd.org>

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On Wed Jun  4 22:18:38 2014, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 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

Are you running head base though and frequently updating?

I too use an older ports tree in various places, but not following head 
enough where it matters much.

--
Regards,
Bryan Drewery



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