From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Jun 23 20:59:38 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82DBBD89C99 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:59:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Received: from msa1.earth.yoonka.com (yoonka.com [88.98.225.149]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "msa1.earth.yoonka.com", Issuer "msa1.earth.yoonka.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C84673FEE for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:59:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Received: from ultrabook.yoonka.com ([10.70.6.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by msa1.earth.yoonka.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id v5NKxYJ7065903 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:59:34 GMT (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) X-Authentication-Warning: msa1.earth.yoonka.com: Host [10.70.6.2] claimed to be ultrabook.yoonka.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20170622121856.haikphjpvr6ofxn3@ivaldir.net> <20170622141644.yadxdubynuhzygcy@ivaldir.net> <4jrnkcpurfmojfdnglqg5f97sohcuv56sv@4ax.com> <20170622211126.GA6878@lonesome.com> <594C4663.5080209@quip.cz> <19474ced-28cf-917d-4642-cb8a501bd56f@gjunka.com> <031b099e-4c70-78fc-206b-54bfcd8fb72d@columbus.rr.com> <20170623124842.20fc0120@gumby.homeunix.com> <190dac52-bae4-0568-c9a8-02ac0b548731@columbus.rr.com> From: Grzegorz Junka Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:59:34 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <190dac52-bae4-0568-c9a8-02ac0b548731@columbus.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-GB-large X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:59:38 -0000 On 23/06/2017 12:32, Baho Utot wrote: > > > On 06/23/17 07:48, RW via freebsd-ports wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:03:35 -0400 >> Baho Utot wrote: >> >> >>> The pre-compiled packages is what drove me to build the entire system >>> as it gave me a broken system that would not work and upon getting it >>> to function would/**/spontaneous reboot. My hand built packages >>> stopped that. >>> >>> I have built run LFS for 10 years. I created a packaging system >>> using rpm for LFS ( it is on github ) . I worked for turbolinux as a >>> beta tester and worked with the folks that kept KDE3 alive, so I am >>> some one that knows something. >> >> And yet you do seem quite exceptionally accident prone. > > Oh gee more insults, is that all you have? > > I guess that is encourgement for me to help FreeBSD. NOT. > > I see many posts about FreeBSD needing help and new help leaving just > as fast. I wonder why when there is no incentive to work with others > how that works. Ya name calling helps. I think you explained well enough what changes/improvements in maintaining of the ports tree you would like to see. Can you be more precise what help and from whom you would need in order to implement it? Grzegorz