From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 18 06:08:38 2004 Return-Path: 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 7150F16A4CE; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 06:08:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441C043D31; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 06:08:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kellers@njit.edu) Received: from [10.0.1.7] (ool-4353d5dd.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.213.221]) by mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0HZH00142Q48TT@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:02:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:02:27 -0400 From: T Kellers In-reply-to: <20040618055220.GB33666@hal9000.halplant.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Andrew J Caines Message-id: <200406180202.27880.kellers@njit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040617001217.GA98558@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040618055220.GB33666@hal9000.halplant.com> cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Milestone X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 06:08:38 -0000 ditto... after upgrading Perl to 5.8.4 and waiting 4 days for the Perl upgrade script from /usr/ports/UPGRADING to complete ( not including Open Office 1.1.1), I'm uncannily impressed that essentially nothing broke in the 442 ports in my /var/db/pkg. The uneffected competence that the FreeBSD team demonstrates beguiles me (most) everytime. Thanks guys (and gals) Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Friday 18 June 2004 01:52 am, Andrew J Caines wrote: > Kris, > > > On the latest i386 4.x package build there were a total of 10000 > > packages built. > > Having recently had to rebuild all of my ~200 ports on my STABLE box and > having to frequently slog at configuring, building, installing and > packaging on other platforms, I hold to my long-held belief that the > FreeBSD ports system is one of the finest examples of software > engineering. > > Thank you to all the porters, maintainers, committers and supporters for > their hard work. > > This message has been brought to you by mutt-devel-1.5.6_3, > postfix-2.1.1,1 and the number 4.10. > > > -Andrew-