[ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

Charlie Kester corky1951 at comcast.net
Thu Apr 8 20:23:13 UTC 2010


On Sun 28 Mar 2010 at 06:38:28 PDT Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>As announced before, a few big commits, that touch some thousands ports
>are being done: png, curl, x11, gnome, kde4. The target ETA is 6-7
>April.
>
>The first one was done, update of graphics/png (including a shared lib
>version bump), with about 5000 ports affected.
>
>We do _NOT_ recommend updating ports until this commits are all done,
>and the problems are fixed, except if you want to help testing / fixing.
>
>Before reporting failures, please take a look at ports@ list, and
>http://qat.tecnik93.com/index.php?action=failed_buildports&sort=last_built
>to find out if the problem hasn't already been reported or even fixed.
>We also have two incremental builds on Pointy to catch the problems.
>
>
>Thank you,
>
>With hat:	portmgr@


Sorry if this seems like nagging, but since we're now past the original
ETA can we get a current status report?  Is the portstree considered
stable again, and if not, what's the revised ETA?



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