From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 17:04:52 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 813D0106564A for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:04:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerry@seibercom.net) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 232378FC15 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:04:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnk5 with SMTP id k5so1423689ggn.13 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:04:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.101.137.3 with SMTP id p3mr11293761ann.140.1321549491448; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:04:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (cpe-076-182-104-150.nc.res.rr.com. [76.182.104.150]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k20sm97594408ann.15.2011.11.17.09.04.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:04:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from scorpio (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jerry@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3SkpjD0f5Vz2CG5m; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:04:48 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at scorpio.seibercom.net Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:04:47 -0500 From: Jerry To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20111117120447.73447103@scorpio> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org Subject: Updating Bash X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:04:52 -0000 I understand that there seems to be some reluctance to updating the "shells/bash" port until after the release of FreeBSD-9.0 at some future date. I am not sure I understand the reasoning behind this logic. If there is a problem with the newer version of Bash, currently 4.1.11 in ports with version 4.2.x currently available and the soon to be released version of 4.3 on the horizon; wouldn't it make more sense to find out if there is in fact a problem with this shell version prior to the release of FreeBSD-9.0? Bash is a commonly used shell and I cannot see what the goal of abstaining from updating it now is? It would certainly seem that if waiting for FBSD-9.0's release and subsequently finding out that the newer version of Bash fails would compound fixing the problem. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ The best way to avoid responsibility is to blame it on someone else.