From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 18:52:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A871065670 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:52:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12FB88FC25 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:52:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzs8 with SMTP id zs8so8873322bkb.13 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:52:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=kGHpsi+Jw9uaYR+Yujx5g87hagDryCOPaCkLXWW7WRk=; b=nzJgDDL0FaPSCEmLzGm9SNvFK5sG/9elY3x0spefChx2ioL4SB5k1f8GgQyucUAPOX psHYpjBIvgTJQaFkvFSSizefXY2cE2DKg2s3fkTSv7shqjPZVBONej3sklLDn+wpelqi 9jIPhQh7p1GIcfAsXL6XsxHXT9Kl2FTSTv92I= Received: by 10.204.141.216 with SMTP id n24mr5331915bku.224.1317149545475; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([78.157.92.5]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d1sm25564306bku.1.2011.09.27.11.52.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:50:43 +0300 From: Gleb Kurtsou To: Ade Lovett Message-ID: <20110927185043.GA84488@tops> References: <20110926230335.041fd9aa@lab.lovett.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110926230335.041fd9aa@lab.lovett.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:52:27 -0000 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"