[HEADSUP] The ports tree is now stage only

Michael Gmelin freebsd at grem.de
Mon Sep 1 17:41:46 UTC 2014


On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 11:27:00 +0200
Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> The ports tree is now fully staged (only 2% has been left unstaged,
> marked as broken and will be removed from the ports tree if no PR to
> stage them are pending in bugzilla).
> 
> I would like to thank every committer and maintainers for their work
> on staging! It allowed us to convert more than 23k packages to
> support stage in only 11 months!
> 
> Staging is a very important state, it allows us to right now be able
> to run quality testing scripts on the packages (which already allowed
> to fix tons of hidden problems) and it allows use to be able to build
> packages as a regular user!
> 
> It also opens the gates to new features that users have been
> requesting for many years:
> - flavors
> - multiple packages
> 
> Expect those features to happen in the near future.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bapt on behalf of portmgr
> 

Impressive effort and totally worth it.

Could you maybe publish the list of all ports that didn't make it
on the wiki (e.g. at https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir)?

-- 
Michael Gmelin
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