From owner-cvs-all Sun Aug 27 14: 5:59 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D14F937B422; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 674961C5C; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:05:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:05:53 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Andreas Klemm Cc: Edward Wolpert , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Andreas Klemm , Steve Price , Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/p5-DBD-Pg Makefile ports/databas Message-ID: <20000827170553.V57333@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000827202609.A29786@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <20000827152643.U57333@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000827225820.A37044@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000827225820.A37044@titan.klemm.gtn.com>; from andreas@klemm.gtn.com on Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 10:58:21PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 10:58:21PM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote: > Excuse me, but why do we then have/take the extra overhead > of a repository copy if a new/parallel port with version numer > is only intended to have a short/temporary lifetime ? So we don't force beta/current/bleeding edge ports on our users. > Then repository copies doesn't make sense and all the involved > work so far would be for nuts and additionally pollutes the > Attic for no reason ! Well, if the port never made it in a release, it doesn't pollute. In any event, the gain of having a stable and current port outways the cost of the repository copy. pgsql7 is now the stable port, so it goes into postgresql. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message