Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:48:18 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm@inbox.lv> Subject: Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors Message-ID: <200412241748.27265.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412240040530.29103-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412240040530.29103-100000@pancho>
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--nextPart1155694.qKHWA1ikJC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:13, Mark Linimon wrote: > There's really quite a bit of email in the mailing list archives > about why this was done. The short summary is that in the short > run there is some pain but in the long run this is a win for the > project, and the users. IMHO it would have been nice for a clearer announcement to have been made=20 regarding this, eg the reasoning and work arounds (which are easy but you=20 have to know about them :) It is a very user visible change and it's rather disruptive (because make=20 index is very time consuming) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1155694.qKHWA1ikJC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBy8LD5ZPcIHs/zowRArfjAKCYkZPdA3xLTgh0yZkTIaEWmPbwcgCdF+jF SJSAtfbXz1KBewA6uaPDkNA= =qREA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1155694.qKHWA1ikJC--
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