Ports tree : Xorg-7.2 release freeze, ETA?
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sat May 19 20:54:02 UTC 2007
Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The gist of the email is asking the age old question, "are we there
> yet?"
>
> As many have commented there are a number of issues with a variety
> of ports which need to be addressed. Some I've noticed are net/samba3
> and sysutils/eject, which contain security issues affecting production
> workstations and servers.
>
> Question for the future:
>
> Wouldn't it be sufficient to force major component testers (in this
> case Xorg 7.2) to use periodic snapshots of the ports tree (possibly CVS
> branching), while allowing continued development in the ports tree? Part
> of my concern is based in the fact that this might be causing issues
> with customer integrity, thus degrading confidence in FreeBSD as a
> production product.
>
> Thanks,
> -Garrett
Of course flo had to answer the ETA part right after I submitted my
question XD.
-Garrett
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