From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 4 08:02:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA04595 for current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 08:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terra.stack.nl (terra.stack.nl [131.155.140.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA04585 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 08:02:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xaa.stack.nl (uucp@localhost) by terra.stack.nl (8.8.7) with UUCP id RAA18715; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 17:00:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from xaa@localhost) by xaa.stack.nl (8.8.6/8.8.2) id RAA16896; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 17:00:20 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970804170019.55419@xaa.stack.nl> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 17:00:19 +0200 From: Mark Huizer To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Wolfgang Helbig , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current is currently really a mess (was: Re: Tk/Tcl broken(?)) Reply-To: Mark Huizer References: <19970804164238.16405@xaa.stack.nl> <1023.870706329@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <1023.870706329@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" on Mon, Aug 04, 1997 at 07:52:09AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Once we started getting reasonably close to rotating stable to legacy > and current to stable, that's when we'd transition the ports/packages > collection to the new stable branch and fix up whatever broke before > finally doing a combined release. > Well, basically, I test them on both stable and current at the moment, so that should help. Perhaps we could have some sort of flag that the portkeepers could add, that says whether or not it will work under current, so that ppl know what to expect. sort of "BROKEN_FOR_CURRENT". I as a porter don't like BROKEN in any of my Makefiles, so that would be reason enough for me to fix it asap :-) Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Mark Huizer - xaa@stack.nl - rcbamh@urc.tue.nl - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, - - they'd be a lot more comfortable. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------