On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:55:47PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
I think you're right about that, and my preferred method of operation for
the ports that I maintain has been to try and test on RELENG_4 whenever
possible, but not let not testing stop me from updating a port that works on
7-current
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:55:47PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
The way you break those numbers down is interesting. On i386 there are 206
errors on -4, 277 on -5, 119 on -6, and 151 on -7.
The key fact that I missed in my first reply to this is that the -5 run
was killed because there was some
Charlie Sorsby wrote:
When one builds (or attempts to build) a port, does the Makefile
know about dependencies and, if necessary, fetch and build any
that are needed but not found?
Yes and yes.
[ ... ]
PS It would be really helpful if each port/package at freebsd.org
had an indication
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:07:55 -0400
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charlie Sorsby wrote:
When one builds (or attempts to build) a port, does the Makefile
know about dependencies and, if necessary, fetch and build any
that are needed but not found?
Yes and yes.
[ ... ]
PS It
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:58:54PM +0300, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote:
Actually support for 4.x is gone already. We're only required to mark
the ports broken or incorporate patches from the users. Of curse, we
try to fix broken ports on 4-STABLE but that battle is going to be lost.
The latest
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:38:23 -0500 Mark Linimon wrote:
Further note: there may be a recent checkin affecting the linux_base
ports which completely skews this result; I am investigating. However.
there are 206 legitimate build errors on i386-4 now; that doesn't include
any port already marked
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:45:02AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
I noticed a few days ago that the first site at FEDORA_CORE_SITES
(limestone.uoregon.edu) is acting not reliable. Your logs says the
same (most distributions were taken from the next site --
mirrors.kernel.org). I'd rather delete
Mark Linimon wrote:
The burden of trying to keep everything working on 4 i386 branches, 3
amd64 branches, and 3 sparc64 branches is too high at this point, especially
with the degree of drift in such things as header files and base compiler
between -4 and -5. Of course, most of these things
