HEADS UP: Ports tree is frozen!

[Erwin Lansing]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:02:26AM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Erwin Lansing wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:32:08PM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> >
> >>Btw, can you build any databases/mysql*-server packages?
> >>
> >>They all depend indirectly on databases/p5-DBI, which is marked
> >>IGNORE on 4.9-PRERELEASE, because p5-DBI-1.38 requires perl 5.6
> >>
> >>Perhaps we should downgrade to p5-DBI-1.37 for 4.9?
> >
> >There will be a p5-DBI-137 port besides p5-DBI for 4.9.
> >I'm waiting for cvsmeisters to do a repocopy.
> 
> There are dependencies in 50 ports:
> 
[snip]

> Perhaps it is easier to downgrade the port, dependend
> on PERL_LEVEL if we have to...
> 
p5-DBI will have an IGNORE message pointing the user to p5-DBI-137.
Without having to patch 50 ports or more, this is the only feasible
solution to have both DBI's in the tree without breaking something or
other.

Cheers,
-erwin

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