ports/156253: [patch] Update devel/boost-* from 1.45 to 1.46.1

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 11 09:59:09 UTC 2012


on 26/04/2012 19:55 Alexander Churanov said the following:
> Folks,
> 
> Let's try updating boost ports using this patch:
> http://alexanderchuranov.com/boost-port/boost-145-to-148-v06.diff
> 
> As I know at present most dependent ports are either OK with newer
> boost or have fixes by maintainers. In some cases it was suggested to
> not pay any attention to failures (e.g. for libre office).
> 
> For this patch I've verified everything that I was able to.
> Unfortunately it's not building every dependent package on every
> supported FreeBSD version and architecture. I had hard time even
> building direct dependencies on i386 and amd64 for 8.0.
> 
> That's why I suggest applying this patch now and fixing critical
> issues as soon as they are detected. I am going to prepeare update to
> most recent verision of Boost after that - it should be much easier
> due to minor verison lag.
> 
> Alexander Churanov,
> maintainer of devel/boost-*

Dear port meisters,

so what's holding back the boost upgrade?
Is there a hope that it is done by 9.1 release time?

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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