From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 07:18:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F54F16A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:18:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9786E43D46 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:18:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iBO7ISeD061906; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:48:28 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:48:18 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1155694.qKHWA1ikJC"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200412241748.27265.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.4 () IN_REP_TO,MIME_LONG_LINE_QP,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Mark Linimon cc: "Michael C. Shultz" Subject: Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:18:37 -0000 --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--