From owner-freebsd-ports Tue May 2 16:29: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B1DA37BC04; Tue, 2 May 2000 16:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA46316; Tue, 2 May 2000 16:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 16:29:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: Philip Hallstrom , Chris Piazza , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: Missing DISTNAME for netpbm 8.4... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2 May 2000, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > I've thought about adding some sort of "timeout" in bsd.port.mk, so > users will have to upgrade their ports-base collection from time to > time, to ensure they will all have a reasonably new bsd.port.mk. What > do you guys think? I think this is the wrong solution. If I install a 4.1 ports collection and use the 4.1 distfiles [*], it should continue to work for all time, because otherwise people without internet connectivity are screwed. The problem here is that people are not updating ports-base at the same time as they update ports-foo - ports-base is a mandatory collection. Perhaps we need to make this more obvious in the docs, or implement some kind of technical solution which makes it impossible (or much harder) for people to not update them both at once. Kris [*] I know we don't ship distfiles on the WC CDs anymore, but thats beside the point - another distribution of FreeBSD might do this, and in fact there has been talk of a periodic ports-collection only release including all distfiles. ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message