From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed May 31 16:58:36 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A34B7E604 for ; Wed, 31 May 2017 16:58:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.117.100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A744833A9 for ; Wed, 31 May 2017 16:58:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from host-4-75.office.adestra.com (unknown [85.199.232.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 077BE30AC for ; Wed, 31 May 2017 16:58:32 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none header.from=FreeBSD.org Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/077BE30AC; dkim=none; dkim-atps=neutral Subject: Re: The future of portmaster [and of ports-mgmt/synth] To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 17:58:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gaWhp8Veos0xTRBhejIeQRTn74E9bVeSI" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 16:58:36 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --gaWhp8Veos0xTRBhejIeQRTn74E9bVeSI Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="h9uUi6XI69wxsTF7tBdvRGxpaabu3Qb6H"; protected-headers="v1" From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: Subject: Re: The future of portmaster [and of ports-mgmt/synth] References: In-Reply-To: --h9uUi6XI69wxsTF7tBdvRGxpaabu3Qb6H Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2017/05/31 17:11, Roger Marquis wrote: > Mark Linimon wrote: >> * some extensive changes to the ports framework are coming; >=20 > Is there a URL (other than svnweb) where we can see a project plan for > these changes? As in the recent past (i.e., since 8-REL) the FreeBSD > end-user community has reason to be worried that: >=20 > * popular tools that were broken in the last major ports update (to > pkgng) will again not be considered part of the update, >=20 > * developers and users of those tools will suffer the pain of > significant refactoring (again) and their Linux-advocating co-engineer= s > will be even more effective in reducing or eliminating FreeBSD in thei= r > environments, >=20 > * little discussion and few details will (again) be available before > the transition, and >=20 > * it will (again) not occur exclusively on a major revision boundary. >=20 > ** These concerns are not so much workload-related as much as they are= > planning-related. >=20 > The lack of planning in previous ports/pkg updates was destructive and > unnecessary. Has anything changed? >=20 > Considering the delays in implementing base packages, pkg_audit that > ignores base or recently deprecated ports and yet another major upgrade= > to the ports framework it should not need to be pointed out that our > favorite OS has become far more difficult to update and maintain than > any version of Linux. Core has some proposals around planning for such changes that they will be talking about during the BSDCan devsummit next week. These should also be published internally fairly soon afterwards for the benefit of people not at BSDCan. 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