On Sep 5, 9:29pm, gle...@eyesbeyond.com (Greg Lewis) wrote: -- Subject: Re: question about diffs with the main port
| On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:12:33PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: | > Hi, | > | > I have not looked recently, but do we have many in the BSD port tree that | > would be generally applicable (portability fixes, bug fixes, cleanups) that | > we have not already sent to the main tree? Perhaps we should sync those | > first to reduce the porting effort for future versions? If we've already | > done this ignore me :-) | | I think most of the changes in the BSD port tree are actually BSD | specifics. Whether that be implementations or differences specific to BSD | or copies of code from another OS (e.g. Linux) into a BSD specific | directory (usually with some renaming involved). I don't think there are | a lot of non-specifics to upstream, although I haven't been over it in | detail lately. | | > Also what's the status for -9? | | We're behind by a lot of builds. We had a working version at one point | (which the repository is at) but that is about fifty build tags back of | the main repository since we got stuck at a non-trivial sync. At this | point a better starting point may be to just sync to what is on tip and | try applying the relevant changes. Thanks a lot for the information Greg. I don't have much time to work on this until October, but I will ping everyone when I start... christos
