[ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

[Leslie Jensen]

Garrett Cooper skrev 2010-04-19 09:28:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Leslie Jensen<leslie at eskk.nu>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> It's now more than 10 days. Are ports stable now?
>
> http://ragingred.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/simpsons_are-we-there-yet.jpg
>
> In short, sorry... nope (there's still some ways to go on updating
> packages -- porters have hit some snags with updating graphics/png,
> zlib in base and lang/php5, mostly -- there's still xorg, gnome, and
> kde to go...).
>
> Honestly, apart from the zlib and png upgrades, there's been little
> churn though for me (XFCE4 user), and I still update without much
> issue on a periodic basis every week.
>
> HTH,
> -Garrett
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Ok! Thank you. I'll keep on waiting then. I'm also using XFCE and it's 
running fine. After having been through a lot of rebuilding of ports and 
the problems that might turn up, I feel it's safer to wait until someone 
gives the go ahead :-)

/Leslie