svn commit: r551167 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 14:33:39 +0000
Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 03:31:19PM +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 12:15:00 +0000 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > ...
> > > No, not fixing bugs.  Generating those endless tarballs and forcing
> > > everyone to download them, again and again, during relatively short
> > > time span.
> > 
> > Let's choose a day when we all commit in the ports tree so we will
> > only download new tarballs once a week.
> 
> I don't see now this is relevant.  Is this supposed to be a joke?

 It was.

> > Friday seems good to me, what do you think?
> 
> I generally disfavor time-based releases.  But then again, this is
> irrelevant to my original concerns.

 It was also a joke.

 I really don't know what you wanted me to answer to this mail.
 In pkg (like a lot of programs) there is a concept of major (currently
1), a minor (currently 15) and patch (currently 8).
 We do a patch release on the stable branch (1.15) each time there is
some bugs fixed. If the bug isn't big we usually wait for a few of them
to be fixed. When they could break anything for the user we cut a new
release.
 We don't want to do the dance of adding patches to files or using
PATCH_SITES so yes you will need to download a new tarball each time we
fix bugs. If you don't want to download new tarballs don't update your
ports tree, I don't know what more I can say.

> ./danfe


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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>