[trim CC list a little to stop people regretting replying to this thread] On 27 October 2012 10:15, Chris Rees <utis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 27 Oct 2012 00:35, "Simon J. Gerraty" <s...@juniper.net> wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:02:00 +0100, Chris Rees writes: >> >In that case we have a switch time on the order of years, not weeks; 8.3 >> > is >> >supported until May '14, and unless we get a :tl etc MFC into 8, even >> >longer. All this time the ports tree must work with pmake. >> >> I'm pretty sure I was told it is already in 8 and 7 > > Not in 8.3 at least: > > svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.3/usr.bin/make/var.c?view=log > >> >I don't want to discourage you or belittle your excellent work here, but >> >Marcel made me very nervous with his comment on the process being "a few >> >weeks". >> >> That was based on discussions at the last devsummit. > > These discussions need backing up with a real roadmap, including detail on > exactly what 8.3 and 7.4 users will have to do to ensure that the ports tree > still works. > > I don't see where these considerations have been made.
OK, so how about this. We (ab)use the security update mechanism to merge the pmake changes (:tl and :tu) into releng/7.4 and releng/8.3 (possibly the earlier releng branches such as 7.3, 8.2, 9.0). We could then send out a message on ports-announce, giving a few weeks' notice that the change to bsd.port.mk is going through and that users need the latest 'security' patches. When we change bsd.port.mk over, include a snippet such as the one at [1], which gives more informative error text and refers user to documentation. Although I still think this is less than ideal, it is the only way I can see that we can switch before May '14, if the urgency is there. Chris [1] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/bmake-pmake.diff _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
