Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:14:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: h h <aakuusta@gmail.com> Cc: ade@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1109270113450.81576@toaster.local> In-Reply-To: <86mxdqfq69.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20110926230335.041fd9aa@lab.lovett.com> <CAN6yY1t5wJ3%2B4LG=upL6sR7tSNU6Uhx-y=L0AJm6rKFsKnvPiQ@mail.gmail.com> <86mxdqfq69.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, h h wrote: > Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> With the advent of the conversion of HEAD to 10.0-CURRENT and, as to be >>> expected, ports/ is going to be essentially unusable for a while. >>> >>> The issue stems from configure scripts (to choose something completely >>> at random) assuming that FreeBSD would never jump to a double-digit >>> major version number, and as such, various regexps for "freebsd1*" (ie: >>> FreeBSD 1.1.x) are now matching "freebsd10". > [...] >> >> aDe, >> >> Could an entry to this effect be added to UPDATING (with a matching >> entry when ports/ is "unbroken"). > > Also mention a workaround, e.g. > > $ export UNAME_r='9.9-BLAH' Assuming that a script's detection algorithm is simple. Please see http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2007-07/msg00597.html for a more complete masquerading algorithm.p -Garrett
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