[UPDATE] Re: Update on ports on 10.0

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:59:38 +0300
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at FreeBSD.org> mentioned:

> Unfortunately we don't seem to have any other way to go, for the
> big majority of the ports. The fix is basically identical, so it
> doesn't make sense to have a zillion of patch files in a zillion of
> ports.
> What, on the other hand, makes sense is to have the fix that should
> include:
> a) a KNOB (WITH_FBSD10_FIX or similar), 
> b) that only is run from bsd.port.mk when OSVERSION>1000000
> c) runs the latest version of the above patch.
> The KNOB's existence allow us to turn on the fix only for broken ports,
> and easily know what these broken ports are -- so we can poke
> maintainers from time to time about upstream fixes, ...
> 

Sounds good to me.

> 
> Presumably $UPSTREAM wants it software to be able to build on FreeBSD
> even outside the PT, especially if this doesn't imply much work on his
> part.
> 

You'd be surprized how many of them do not care about FreeBSD altogether.
Even if you send them patches.

-- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE

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