Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:50:43 +0300 From: Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <20110927185043.GA84488@tops> In-Reply-To: <20110926230335.041fd9aa@lab.lovett.com> References: <20110926230335.041fd9aa@lab.lovett.com>
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On (26/09/2011 23:03), Ade Lovett wrote: > 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 completely > at random) assuming that FreeBSD would never jump to a double-digit > major version number, and as such, various regexps for "freebsd1*" (ie: > FreeBSD 1.1.x) are now matching "freebsd10". It's more exciting than that. FreeBSD >= 10 is already seized by Apple :) http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=__FreeBSD__%5CW%2B10&type=cs > > This is going to be some fairly fundamental breakage. > > However, until such time as 9.0-RELEASE is completely out of the door, > with autotools hat on, I will _not_ be committing any changes to > infrastructural ports to "fix" this. > > That is to say, until 9.0-R happens, and for some considerable period > afterwards, ya'll can pretty much expect ports/ to be non-functional on > HEAD. PRs mentioning this will be gleefully closed referencing this > message. > > -aDe > > Reply-To set to me. Please honor it. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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