From owner-freebsd-ports-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 1 06:42:58 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports-announce@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A081065675; Sat, 1 Sep 2012 06:42:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F6578FC12; Sat, 1 Sep 2012 06:42:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q816gwSg046133; Sat, 1 Sep 2012 06:42:58 GMT (envelope-from tabthorpe@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from tabthorpe@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q816gwFF046122; Sat, 1 Sep 2012 06:42:58 GMT (envelope-from tabthorpe) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 06:42:58 +0000 From: Thomas Abthorpe To: ports-announce@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20120901064258.GA46114@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 01 Sep 2012 06:52:49 +0000 Cc: Subject: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] [HEADS UP] Change to the header in ports Makefiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Important news and instructions about the FreeBSD " ports collection" \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2012 06:42:58 -0000 An idea has been floating around for some time, and it was brought up again on the ports@ mailing list recently, please remove the extraneous header information from the Makefile, leaving only the $FreeBSD$ id on the first line. It is an idea that is long overdue, so from now on, the other fives lines shall be removed. We do request that this be done sparingly in the short term, as we do not want to cause any additional churn on the repo as we approach our upcoming Ports Feature Freeze, still tentatively scheduled for September 7. So please proceed only on existing updates. Please do not do any sweeping commits until we have the ports tree stablised post 9.1 tagging. Also bear in mind that Redports/QAT queues a job for every change done to a Makefile, we do not want to overburden the QAT at this time. It is important to allow this service to run at peek efficiency at this time to ensure it's full potential as we approach the upcoming Feature Freeze. The new look of the Makefile has been document in the Porter's Handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/quick-porting.html#PORTING-MAKEFILE. The next item on the todo list is to update devel/newfile for those that do a port create. Thomas on behalf of portmgr@ http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2012/09/01/change-to-the-header-in-ports-makefiles/