cvs commit: ports/x11/nvidia-driver Makefile pkg-plist

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:10:44PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:37:44PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:08:46PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > danfe       2006-03-20 16:08:46 UTC
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     x11/nvidia-driver    Makefile pkg-plist 
> > >   Log:
> > >   - Xorg 6.9 uses the .so extension instead of .a for the server extensions.
> > >     Fix the pkg-plist for that [1]
> > >   - Remove the USE_REINPLACE since it is no longer needed [1]
> > >   
> > >   Please note that 4.X users will probably suffer from this as a side
> > >   effect, however, taking them into account will further complicate the
> > >   Makefile logic, which is already pretty hard to follow.  Since I warned
> > >   4.X users about removing support for that old release of FreeBSD (and
> > >   since I'd be really suprised to find out there's someone still using
> > >   4.X as their desktop) more than 8 months ago, plus we're not obliged to
> > >   support ports on 4.X anymore, I think we can live with it.
> > 
> > Only if you mark the port IGNORE on 4.x so it tells them up-front.
> 
> I deliberately did not bump PORTREVISION [*] to minimize effect on 4.x users
> (presuming they already have nvidia-driver port installed and registered
> properly).
> 
> Nonetheless, I'm thinking of more perfect way of dealing with this issue
> right now, and in case I could not get one promptly, I'll IGNORE it on
> 4.x or find other canonically-proper way to fix it.
> 
> > 
> > Dear committer: you have many other ports that you also need to
> > annotate with BROKEN/IGNORE (or fix).  I hope you'll do so soon
> > instead of committing new ones :-)
> 
> Despite the fact you're quite right, and I'm very aware of those and
> fixes will follow promptly, I'd appreciate if such assessments were
> sent privately.

Fair enough, sorry.

Kris
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