From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 18:05:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 828851065674 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:05:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ade@FreeBSD.org) Received: from panix.lovett.com (panix.lovett.com [166.84.7.128]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8E08FC17 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:05:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cpe-66-68-128-204.austin.res.rr.com ([66.68.128.204] helo=[172.16.32.150]) by panix.lovett.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.73 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4dIU-0007Iy-5T; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:05:42 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Ade Lovett In-Reply-To: <20110329091110.GB53262@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:05:31 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <075CA6AC-D313-4A57-8450-F1BEAF4892B8@FreeBSD.org> References: <20110329091110.GB53262@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> To: Peter Jeremy X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Alpha/AXP ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:05:43 -0000 On Mar 29, 2011, at 04:11 , Peter Jeremy wrote: > I recently happened to notice that lang/compaq-cc is still present > in the ports tree, although it's only for alpha. It can presumably > be deleted. Most likely, yes. Unless there are dependent ports which also need to = be burned away. > That triggered me to have a closer look through the ports tree. > Whilst there aren't any other alpha-only ports, there are a number of > other ports that mention alpha in ONLY_FOR_ARCHS or in conditional > make code. A complete list follows. How should this be handled? It > seems silly to submit a massive number of PRs. Certainly one PR per port is not the way to go. If I were to do this = (and, no I'm not volunteering ;) I'd (a) get approval from portmgr@ to = forcibly remove alpha/axp support from the tree and then (b) simply = check out all the relevant ports below, break out the Danish Axe, and do = a single "byebye, Alpha" commit. However, there's no real defined policy on purging truly dead "stuff" (a = _similar_ example would be hunting down anything for OSVERSION <=3D = 699999 since we have the 6_EOL tag). -aDe