[ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

Michael Powell nightrecon at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 28 14:32:05 UTC 2010


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@
> 

Thank you very much for this notification. It surely is nice to know this.

-Mike




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