Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:29:07 -0600 From: Janketh Jay <jankyj@unfs.us> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Change to the header in ports Makefiles Message-ID: <5042E093.9060907@unfs.us> In-Reply-To: <20120902040047.GG14617@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20120901064257.GA45993@freefall.freebsd.org> <20120902040047.GG14617@hub.freebsd.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As far as I'm concerned, the commiters will take care of this when they need to. Leaving current port headers in-tact is the best way to go regardless of this discussion... On 09/01/2012 10:00 PM, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 06:42:57AM +0000, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: >> 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/ > >> > Cease fire on stripping header information. > > Seems there is more to the issue that we will need to resolved > before we proceed, so please update ports normally, please leave > the header intact. > > If you have already stripped some headers, leave it alone for now. > > > Thomas > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBC4I8ACgkQGK3MsUbJZn6GCwCeN56F4Lwpr3gYczUnzf7qNoY8 TxEAn1EVCF0eiPMn0SXSg86c6FFAF2bv =kW6o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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