HEADS UP: MAJOR changes to the ports system

[Vladimir B. Grebenschikov]

В ср, 04.02.2004, в 11:31, Joe Marcus Clarke пишет:
> On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 03:22, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 
> > > Sorry for the wide distribution, but it is critical that -CURRENT users
> > > hear this.  Two _MAJOR_ changes just went in to the ports tree that are
> > > bound to cause some pain to -CURRENT users.  
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm glad to hear about this and I wouldn't mind hearing regularly about
> > major events over in the ports tree.
> 
> I've started doing this.  The full summary was sent to ports@ and
> ports-developers@, plus I added a copy to /usr/ports/CHANGES.  This is
> now the second major ports update I've summarized.  Once the archives
> get back up to speed, you should be able to see my previous summary.

How about gettext -> gettext-old transition ? A lot of ports still 
depends on gettext-old while others on gettext, gettext conflicts with 
gettext-old, and, as result, portupgrade -af constatntly tries to
install gettext-old as dependancy and fails.

> Joe

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Vladimir B. Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru>
SWsoft Inc.