Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:01:29 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Parv <parv@pair.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9-STABLE --> 4.8-RELEASE downgrade. Pitfalls? Message-ID: <A69ACCB4-BA36-11D8-8AD0-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20040609011934.GA393@moo.holy.cow> References: <20040609011934.GA393@moo.holy.cow>
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On Jun 8, 2004, at 9:19 PM, Parv wrote: > wrote Chuck Swiger thusly... >> Thanks for the response, Parv, but ugh! I cringe at the notion that >> continually tweaking make and the port Makefiles causes problems >> with backwards compatibility to a still-supported FreeBSD release. > > That looks like the message that i sent to one of the FreeBSD lists. > After searching PR database, it seems somebody else found the exact > reason... > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/60288 Ah! Per se, a bugfix to make isn't the same thing as changing the features of make, so I am somewhat less concerned about this specific case than the general one. > I think life w/ NetBSD would not be so bad via its FreeBSD ports > equivalent "pkgsrc". One other known benefit, via pkgviews, is that > multiple versions of a particular an be simultaneously installed/used > at the cost of use of many symbolic links. > > Here are some things on pkgsrc ... Yes, I'm using NetBSD and pkgsrc a little bit myself, although I am much more familiar with FreeBSD than the former. I found NetBSD to be fine but, hmm, minimalist? The notion of a package system that works everywhere is a good one, I just wish it played nice with the local platform conventions a little more closely, just as I wish that the perl+BSDPAN combination in FreeBSD ports would play nice with using CPAN directly a little better. -- -Chuck
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