Last flavorless revision?

Alan Hicks ahicks at p-o.co.uk
Mon Dec 4 12:11:29 UTC 2017



On 02/12/2017 17:28, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 02:06:32PM +0100, Christian Ullrich wrote:
>> * Steve Kargl wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 01:42:27PM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>>>> On 1 Dec, 2017, at 13:07, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> ports/UPDATING does not seem to include an entry noting
>>>>> the last subversion revision prior to the flipping on
>>>>> flavors.  Is revision 455205 the penultimate revision?
>>>>
>>>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org
>>>>
>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> He means, "I could just write 'No, 455205 is the first one with FLAVORS
>> support in it, if you don't count the brief interlude from 450663 until
>> 450939 when introducing it exposed the lack of communication between
>> ports collection and ports tools maintainers for the first time', but
>> since that would be entirely too helpful, instead I'll just post a link
>> to the SVN web interface which boasts all the charm and usability of the
>> late 1990s and let you figure it out for yourself."
>>
> 
> Given that I asked about a specific revision number, it stands
> to reason that I had already spent too much time wandering around
> svnweb.freebsd.org.  An entry needs to be added to ports/UPDATING
> to state which revision turns on flavors and by extension neuters
> all port management tools except poudriere.  Four months from now
> when users update a system finding that information by crawling
> through svnweb.freebsd.org will be a challenge.
> 

Your friend is subversion log search
svn log --search FLAVORS svn://svn.FreeBSD.org

r455205 | mat | 2017-11-30 15:33:29 +0000 (Thu, 30 Nov 2017) | 13 lines

Generic FLAVORS work.

- Enable FLAVORS.
- Make make describe flavors aware.
- Add a qa check for unique package names amongst flavors.
- Make MOVEDlint understand flavors.
- Add a bit of sanity check to make sure FLAVORS stay lowercase.
- Various fixes.

Reviewed by:    portmgr
Sponsored by:   Absolight
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12577

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