From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 17: 0: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C465537B719 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:00:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2H101n01071; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:00:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:00:00 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <20010316170000.R29888@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010316134349.K29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010316163748Z.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010316164457.A57253@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010316164457.A57253@hub.freebsd.org>; from TrimYourCC@nuxi.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:44:57PM -0800 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David O'Brien [010316 16:45] wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:37:48PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > I'll also expect that the ports folks will simply bump the bento > > cluster "artificially" up to 4.4-RELEASE by setting the versions there > > manually, so the packages will all bear the correct information. > > This doesn't solve the ports problem as ports maintainers cannot use > bento for their own build testing. To take this approach puts us back in > the FORTRAN, punched cards, batch days. > > A ports committer under the above conditions have to see in the bento > error logs there was a configure problem, guess at the fix (since it > isn't as easy to test on their own box), commit a fix, wait 24-36 hours > later to see if indeed the commit fixed the problem, repeat if needed... Or teach the ports committers the way to bump newver.sh themselves. A minor step that should be trivial for them to do. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message