Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 22:01:17 +0200 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r551167 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg Message-ID: <20201002220117.84e69e94caeb1f7755134eab@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <20201002194134.GA96399@FreeBSD.org> References: <202010020901.09291fXL073017@repo.freebsd.org> <20201002100029.GA22826@FreeBSD.org> <20201002122612.6dc4c1e7853435506790a197@bidouilliste.com> <20201002121500.GA72308@FreeBSD.org> <20201002153119.c1e7b02250325d9ae628c2c3@bidouilliste.com> <20201002143339.GA34987@FreeBSD.org> <20201002164722.e951361b8a93fc267e390f11@bidouilliste.com> <20201002194134.GA96399@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 19:41:34 +0000 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 04:47:22PM +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > > ... > > In pkg (like a lot of programs) there is a concept of major (currently > > 1), a minor (currently 15) and patch (currently 8). > > We do a patch release on the stable branch (1.15) each time there is > > some bugs fixed. If the bug isn't big we usually wait for a few of them > > to be fixed. When they could break anything for the user we cut a new > > release. > > I understand this; however, I'm wondering why so many little bugs (and > fixes) start coming in quick succession. Because we started using more features of pkg, even old ones that weren't used before but implemented a long time ago. > It was not like that before. I might expect this from the pkg-devel port, > but not the stable one. pkg-devel doesn't catch a lot of things as almost no one uses it and even if it's used it doesn't catches everything. > > If you don't want to download new tarballs don't update your ports tree > > Right, that's what I'm usually doing in these cases, as I often find > myself working on ports with poor or without any network coverage. If > only those bugs would be caught by the pkg-devel port. :-) Perhaps it > is not being dog-fed enough on our port builders? Again, pkg-devel isn't used. I personally use it for $customer but as I have a short package list I don't catch every bugs. Also building packages with it is one thing, installing them is another. > ./danfe -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
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