Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:03:11 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, h h <aakuusta@gmail.com>, ade@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <CADLo83-XW2=cp2RZo18%2B-tAxSMFwKAQ7eGVkdvrxDOPN4yKroQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110927091830.GA35900@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20110926230335.041fd9aa@lab.lovett.com> <CAN6yY1t5wJ3%2B4LG=upL6sR7tSNU6Uhx-y=L0AJm6rKFsKnvPiQ@mail.gmail.com> <86mxdqfq69.fsf@gmail.com> <4E818941.7060006@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20110927091830.GA35900@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On 27 September 2011 10:18, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:28:49AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: >> On 09/27/11 08:35, h h wrote: >> >Kevin Oberman<kob6558@gmail.com> =A0writes: >> > >> >>On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Ade Lovett<ade@freebsd.org> =A0wrote: >> >> >> >>>With the advent of the conversion of HEAD to 10.0-CURRENT and, as to = be >> >>>expected, ports/ is going to be essentially unusable for a while. >> >>> >> >>>The issue stems from configure scripts (to choose something completel= y >> >>>at random) assuming that FreeBSD would never jump to a double-digit >> >>>major version number, and as such, various regexps for "freebsd1*" (i= e: >> >>>FreeBSD 1.1.x) are now matching "freebsd10". >> >[...] >> >> >> >>aDe, >> >> >> >>Could an entry to this effect be added to UPDATING (with a matching >> >>entry when ports/ is "unbroken"). >> > >> >Also mention a workaround, e.g. >> > >> > =A0 $ export UNAME_r=3D'9.9-BLAH' >> >> >> Now I understand why some OS vendors have choosen the latin 10 'X' for >> their tenth version of their operating system ... > > At least there will be a long rest after > the move to 10 is complete.. until FreeBSD 100. > I'm afraid not; freebsd2*) We'll be just as screwed at 20. Hopefully we can fix that at the same time. Chris
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