svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster
Bryan Drewery
bdrewery at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 27 00:19:15 UTC 2016
On 1/26/2016 3:23 AM, John Marino wrote:
> Author: marino
> Date: Tue Jan 26 11:23:38 2016
> New Revision: 407270
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/407270
>
> Log:
> ports-mgmt/portmaster: DEPRECATE without expiration date
>
> The portmaster script hasn't had an official maintainer in 9 months and 2
> years before that it was only patched in reaction to changes in the ports
> framework. There are many unclaimed PRs in the bugzilla database, many
> known bugs, and several areas where portmaster no longer aligns with how
> ports work today. The problem isn't simply getting a maintainer; that
> person has to be a ports framework expert and it appears that the people
> with these qualifications don't want anything to do with this port.
>
> Moreover, there are better options available. All FreeBSD platforms
> support ports-mgmt/poudriere (although some many struggle under the load)
> and the most common amd64 and i386 platform users have the additional
> option of ports-mgmt/synth which is user-friendly, lightweight, and aimed
> at users of portmaster, portupgrade, and even poudriere.
>
> Unless something drastic regarding portmaster occurs, it's nearing its
> natural EOL, so it's users should evaluate alternatives and try to
> migrate off of it.
>
> Modified:
> head/ports-mgmt/portmaster/Makefile
>
> Modified: head/ports-mgmt/portmaster/Makefile
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/ports-mgmt/portmaster/Makefile Tue Jan 26 10:20:14 2016 (r407269)
> +++ head/ports-mgmt/portmaster/Makefile Tue Jan 26 11:23:38 2016 (r407270)
> @@ -25,6 +25,16 @@ PLIST_FILES= sbin/portmaster \
> BASH_PLIST_FILES= etc/bash_completion.d/portmaster.sh
> ZSH_PLIST_FILES= share/zsh/site-functions/_portmaster
>
> +.include <bsd.port.options.mk>
> +
> +DEPRECATED= Unmaintained and does not fully support modern ports framework.
> +.if ${ARCH} == i386 || ${ARCH} == amd64
> +DEPRECATED+= Please consider migrating to ports-mgmt/synth or\
> + ports-mgmt/poudriere.
> +.else
> +DEPRECATED+= Please consider migrating to ports-mgmt/poudriere.
> +.endif
> +
> verify: checksum
>
> do-build:
>
I think this needs community discussion. Many people have said privately
it bothered them.
--
Regards,
Bryan Drewery
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