Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:42:18 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/35927: Permission sought to commit this automake 1.6 upgrade Message-ID: <20020316174218.GA23664@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <20020316093752.B72388@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200203151849.g2FIn4F38189@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020315195523.GB53073@squall.waterspout.com> <20020316093752.B72388@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 09:37:52AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: >On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:55:23PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:49:04AM -0800, obrien@FreeBSD.org wrote: >> > Synopsis: Permission sought to commit this automake 1.6 upgrade >> >> Why do you need this version upgrade? I have heard from several >> people that there is serious breakage in 1.6 vs. 1.5. I will get >> specifics ASAP. > >Some projects I work on desires the latest released of tools. >Also the same reasons that we don't want to always remain stale on things >(which we seem to be doing lately). If 1.6 is truely a disaster, we >should try to figure out if the automake people consider it one also -- >ie, will 1.7 have the same issues and we must live with this change; or >1.7 will fix them and be more like 1.5 in what ever respect you've heard >about. David, why don't you help me get ports/35710 completed? That's a repocopy and creation of automake-devel, that will allow you to do what you need without replacing a criticial system tool with an untested new version. -- AlanE "When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro." - HST To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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