Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:24:10 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: MAJOR changes to the ports system Message-ID: <20040204192410.GA18132@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <1075883492.76993.65.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402040021500.71519-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <1075883492.76993.65.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:31:32AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 03:22, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > > Sorry for the wide distribution, but it is critical that -CURRENT users > > > hear this. Two _MAJOR_ changes just went in to the ports tree that are > > > bound to cause some pain to -CURRENT users. > > > > > > > I'm glad to hear about this and I wouldn't mind hearing regularly about > > major events over in the ports tree. > > I've started doing this. The full summary was sent to ports@ and > ports-developers@, plus I added a copy to /usr/ports/CHANGES. This is > now the second major ports update I've summarized. Once the archives > get back up to speed, you should be able to see my previous summary. > A quick comment and question re the ports tree. Since the ./distinfo file began listing the "SIZE=" line, my portupgrade scripts (and fetch) have broken when I upgrade. I'm running 4.7PRE and 4.8PRE. (I'm trying to floppy install 5.2-RELEASE, as well.) Do I need to get a new version of fetch? Hand-deleting the SIZE line in the ./distinfo file is a temp workaround; is there a better way? ...I must have missed *something*........ gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040204192410.GA18132>