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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:58:12 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet@yahoo.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>, ports-announce@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADSUP] current switched by default to pkgng
Message-ID:  <20121010155811.GC62709@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 08:42:39AM -0700, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote:
>=20
>=20
> --- On Wed, 10/10/12, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> > From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
> > Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] current switched by default to pkgng
> > To: "Baptiste Daroussin" <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
> > Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-announce@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
> > Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 6:51 AM
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 03:44:21PM
> > +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >=20
> > > If you are using the ports tree on a FreeBSD current
> > setup, then you are
> > > concerned by the announce.
> > >=20
> > > As nvidia-drivers has been fixed and is now properly
> > working with pkgng, the
> > > ports tree as been switch by default to use pkgng on
> > FreeBSD Current based on
> > > version >=3D 1000017 which was the version when we
> > tested the switch code.
> > >=20
> > > Make sure to read UPDATING (from ports) to correctly
> > migrate your system or find
> > > instruction to make your system still running with
> > legacy pkg_install tools.
> > >=20
> >=20
> > Congratulations, and thank you for all of your hard work on
> > this!
> >=20
> > Glen
> >=20
> >=20
> I was/am confused by the UPDATING instructions.
> To make the switch:  (which switch, and only for V10, from which
> to which?)
> ...
> Before and after step 3, how specifically is the system set up?
> ...
> Should any of this be done by persons using V9 immediately before
> a v9 v10 upgrade?  And can another synopsis be written for those
> before the upgrade, specifically to prepare for either case
> after the upgrade?=20
> IOW more subsections and a longer explanation.  (I think maybe more
> context before/after some of the steps in the procedure...)
>=20
>=20
> Just a  suggestion.  I could probably figure it all out later...

the AFFECT line was updated to specify which version of FreeBSD are concern=
ed.

This also concern people doing an upgrade from v9 to v10, but after the upg=
rade
to v10.

regards,
Bapt

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