From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 11:39:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3E516A4CF for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:39:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D8343D48 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:38:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 11124 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2004 19:38:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 4 Feb 2004 19:38:09 -0000 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:39:42 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Gary Kline Message-Id: <20040204213942.134d7954@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040204192410.GA18132@tao.thought.org> References: <1075883492.76993.65.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040204192410.GA18132@tao.thought.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: Joe Marcus Clarke cc: Julian Elischer cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: MAJOR changes to the ports system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 19:39:28 -0000 On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:24:10 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > 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.) Check /usr/ports/CHANGES and cvsup again, it has been fixed. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user