From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 16 10:30: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 025EF37B404; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:29:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2GITtlv086599; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:29:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2GISdsV086589; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:28:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:28:39 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alan Eldridge Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/35927: Permission sought to commit this automake 1.6 upgrade Message-ID: <20020316102839.A86570@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200203151849.g2FIn4F38189@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020315195523.GB53073@squall.waterspout.com> <20020316093752.B72388@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020316174218.GA23664@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020316174218.GA23664@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>; from alane@geeksrus.net on Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:42:18PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:42:18PM -0500, Alan Eldridge wrote: > >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. Because I see no use for all these -devel ports for *RELEASED* versions. Rather, lets do a exp4 Package test run with AM 1.6 and see what happens. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message