Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:42:37 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports upgrade .... Message-ID: <1c3c340b-f110-ceb4-55f2-d2f05062ce37@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <5716A547.6030504@FreeBSD.org> References: <571684CD.2070800@hiwaay.net> <5716A547.6030504@FreeBSD.org>
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On 04/19/16 16:44, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 19/04/2016 20:18, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> It brought down almost 14K updates for 3-ish weeks .... I know the ports
>> effort is a feverish hive of productivity, but that sounded a bit high
>> :-) .... Is that number anomalous, maybe coincident w/ new quarter,
>> something else ? More question than problem, but curious. TIA & have a
>> good one.
> Yes. There was a change to the format of DEPENDS lines which has
> affected every ports Makefile. However, this does not mean that you'll
> need to recompile every port you have installed -- it doesn't affect the
> output from compiling the port in any way.
>
> It's coincident with the change of quarter, because modifying all the
> DEPENDS settings in the middle of a quarter would have made it
> impossible subsequently to MFH anything to the quarterly branch.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
>
*Boooyah* !!! I pretty much figured as much, just curious ....
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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