HEADS UP: MAJOR changes to the ports system

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:31:32AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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.
> 

	A quick comment and question re the ports tree.  
	Since the ./distinfo file began listing the "SIZE="
	line, my portupgrade scripts (and fetch) have broken
	when I upgrade.  I'm running 4.7PRE and 4.8PRE.  (I'm
	trying to floppy install 5.2-RELEASE, as well.)

	Do I need to get a new version of fetch?  Hand-deleting
	the SIZE line in the ./distinfo file is a temp
	workaround; is there a better way?  ...I must have 
	missed *something*........

	gary





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