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

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 19:41:34 +0000
Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 04:47:22PM +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > ...
> > 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.
> 
> I understand this; however, I'm wondering why so many little bugs (and
> fixes) start coming in quick succession.  

 Because we started using more features of pkg, even old ones that
weren't used before but implemented a long time ago.

> It was not like that before. I might expect this from the pkg-devel port, 
> but not the stable one.

 pkg-devel doesn't catch a lot of things as almost no one uses it and
even if it's used it doesn't catches everything.

> > If you don't want to download new tarballs don't update your ports tree
> 
> Right, that's what I'm usually doing in these cases, as I often find
> myself working on ports with poor or without any network coverage.  If
> only those bugs would be caught by the pkg-devel port. :-)  Perhaps it
> is not being dog-fed enough on our port builders?

 Again, pkg-devel isn't used. I personally use it for $customer but as
I have a short package list I don't catch every bugs.
 Also building packages with it is one thing, installing them is
another.

> ./danfe


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