From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 20 01:09:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C45516A4DE for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:09:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbq@caraldi.com) Received: from caraldi.com (195-13-58-165.oxyd.net [195.13.58.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E8943D72 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:09:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbq@caraldi.com) Received: from watt.caraldi.com (laf31-2-82-224-106-41.fbx.proxad.net [82.224.106.41]) by caraldi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4383A60E1 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:08:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by watt.caraldi.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A7D1C281; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:08:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:08:56 +0200 From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060820010855.GA42222@watt.intra.caraldi.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20060816123335.GA42090@underworld.novel.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060816123335.GA42090@underworld.novel.ru> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: ports tree tagging again X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:09:04 -0000 * Roman Bogorodskiy: > 2. Port tree is unstable > > IMO, port tree is not very stable. I mean: we're all human and > more or less often make mistakes and inaccurate commits. So you > cannot be sure that if you cvsup/portsnap your tree, it will not > break something (e.g. because of some typo). It's OK to have > such errors in general, and we can do nothing with it, but there > are a lot of silly errors which could be avoided and you > definitely don't deal with on a stable system. However on a stable system you are probably not upgrading your ports every day. And even if you're upgrading the ports. I'm using FreeBSD for 5 years now, and I never encountered problems caused by inaccurate commits, because most of the time those errors are fixed very quickly. Most errors I get from ports are caused by outdated dependency conflicts, not by committers or maintainers mistake. -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot aka John Banana Qwerty http://caraldi.com/jbq/