Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:44:10 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.ru>, Kevin Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net>, FreeBSD-Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error installing pine-3.96 Message-ID: <199703311544.RAA27738@grackle.grondar.za>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > I'm not necessarily advocating going the multi-branch route and > imposing the same disciplines on ports/ that we have on src/, either > (though that may eventually be necessary and I'm not saying anything > either way on that yet), but it would be nice if ports maintainers > made a special effort to see that a port compiled under *both* > branches of the OS. Most porters are probably running 2.2 anyway, and > if thud will start staying up more than 4-5 hours at a time, we can > have them test the 3.0 operability there. This route is frought with danger. I'm not trrying to shoot it down, (Au Contraire - I would love to see it work,) but there are some issues that make the labour darned difficult. Example - SSH. SSH is one of those things that folk always want the latest version of. We moved libz and libgmp into mainstream code, but our versions in the RELENG_* branch are not those that the port wanted. Making this work was _very_ dirty. Around these parts, most folk just gave up, said "sod the ports system" and rolled their own. Cock-ups abounded. We need to think up a method of allowing for this. M -- Mark Murray PGP key fingerprint = 80 36 6E 40 83 D6 8A 36 This .sig is umop ap!sdn. BC 06 EA 0E 7A F2 CE CE
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