From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 1 5: 9:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (stampede.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.45.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F56150D0 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 05:09:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca43-216.ix.netcom.com [209.111.209.216]) by stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA18797; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 05:08:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.2/8.6.9) id FAA53495; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 05:08:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 05:08:41 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199904011308.FAA53495@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: silvia.hip.berkeley.edu: asami set sender to asami@cs.berkeley.edu using -f To: rkw@dataplex.net Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Richard Wackerbarth on Thu, 1 Apr 1999 06:52:35 -0600 (CST)) Subject: Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami) References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * From: Richard Wackerbarth * I have to agree that the problem is real. * However, let me point out that a "one identifier" solution is * very short sided. sighted :> * There are two distinct environments to be considered. * The HOST environment and the TARGET environment. * For convience, we should also consider a TOOLSET * environment which is a cross between the two. (Rolling my eyes.) This issue has nothing to do with hosts and targets. The ports tree has never supported building ports on a system with a version other than the one that is going to run it. (And we don't intend to start doing it any time soon either, sorry. ;) -W To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message