Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:04:20 -0700 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Subject: Re: [UPDATE] Re: Update on ports on 10.0 Message-ID: <20111019010420.646c0938.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20111019105938.5aa842a4@FreeBSD.org> References: <20111011063602.GO68552@droso.net> <20111017153551.23281532@tetcu.info> <20111017135130.d9caa4f1.stas@FreeBSD.org> <20111018223146.GA93539@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20111019105938.5aa842a4@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:59:38 +0300 Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> mentioned: > Unfortunately we don't seem to have any other way to go, for the > big majority of the ports. The fix is basically identical, so it > doesn't make sense to have a zillion of patch files in a zillion of > ports. > What, on the other hand, makes sense is to have the fix that should > include: > a) a KNOB (WITH_FBSD10_FIX or similar), > b) that only is run from bsd.port.mk when OSVERSION>1000000 > c) runs the latest version of the above patch. > The KNOB's existence allow us to turn on the fix only for broken ports, > and easily know what these broken ports are -- so we can poke > maintainers from time to time about upstream fixes, ... > Sounds good to me. > > Presumably $UPSTREAM wants it software to be able to build on FreeBSD > even outside the PT, especially if this doesn't imply much work on his > part. > You'd be surprized how many of them do not care about FreeBSD altogether. Even if you send them patches. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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