HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT

[O. Hartmann]

On 09/27/11 08:35, h h wrote:
> Kevin Oberman<kob6558 at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Ade Lovett<ade at freebsd.org>  wrote:
>>
>>> With the advent of the conversion of HEAD to 10.0-CURRENT and, as to be
>>> expected, ports/ is going to be essentially unusable for a while.
>>>
>>> The issue stems from configure scripts (to choose something completely
>>> at random) assuming that FreeBSD would never jump to a double-digit
>>> major version number, and as such, various regexps for "freebsd1*" (ie:
>>> FreeBSD 1.1.x) are now matching "freebsd10".
> [...]
>>
>> aDe,
>>
>> Could an entry to this effect be added to UPDATING (with a matching
>> entry when ports/ is "unbroken").
>
> Also mention a workaround, e.g.
>
>    $ export UNAME_r='9.9-BLAH'


Now I understand why some OS vendors have choosen the latin 10 'X' for 
their tenth version of their operating system ...