[HEADSUP] recent instability on ports for 4.X

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Tue Jan 24 07:34:39 PST 2006


linimon at lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) writes:

> The most recent checkin of bsd.*.mk has caused some instability which we
> (the portmgr team) now think we've fixed the critical parts of.  'make
> search' is still broken and we are working on that.  This only affects 4.X.
>
> This was the first time we've tested a patchset on 5-exp instead of 4-exp
> and of course this enraged Murphy (he of Murphy's Law) and so he came and
> bit us pretty hard.
>
> As well, a few ports that were doing non-standard things with USE_RC_SUBR
> were broken by this same checkin, and we are working with the maintainers
> on those ports as we find them.
>
> Apologies for the instability.

Coming from Linux for the most part where even kernel hackers don't care
for what they messed up, I'm quite impressed someone takes
responsibility for third-party ports@ annoyances.

Thanks a lot!  This is what makes FreeBSD surroundings a friendly place.

-- 
Matthias Andree


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