Subversion 1.7 and usage of USE_SUBVERSION=16

Lev Serebryakov lev at FreeBSD.org
Sun Oct 16 20:50:39 UTC 2011


Hello, Miroslav.
You wrote 17 октября 2011 г., 0:45:23:

> Cited from UPDATING
> ======================
>    (c) You use devel/subversion without FreeBSD patches and, maybe,
>        some bindings. You want good old subversion 1.6.x, without
>        patches again.
>        Please, run:

>    # cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion16 && make config
>    <deselect first three options, described above, if you want it>
>    # portupgrade -o devel/subversion16 devel/subversion
>    # portupgrade -m "USE_SUBVERSION=16" -r devel/subversion16
>    or
>    # portmaster -o devel/subversion16 devel/subversion
>    # portmaster -m "USE_SUBVERSION=16" -R -r subversion-1.6
> ======================

> I thought that any USE_* variables are used inside Makefiles only, not
> for users need. Users can use WITH_* variables.
> So I expect WITH_SUBVERSION_VER=16 (according to other variables in 
> /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.*.mk files.

> Or am I wrong and usage of USE_SUBVERSION outside Makefile is OK?
 Maybe, I was wrong in spelling of these variables. But, IMHO, it is
too late to change them, am I right? Or it is Ok to change UPDATING
file (not add new record, but change existing one)?

-- 
// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>



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