Last flavorless revision?
Jan Beich
jbeich at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 4 18:18:45 UTC 2017
Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 11:49:30AM +0000, Alan Hicks wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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:
>> >>
>> >
>> > 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.
Another way to get the revision:
$ svn blame /usr/ports/CHANGES | awk '/FLAVOR/ { rev=$1 } END { print rev }'
455205
>
> This does not document the change in ports/UPDATING. FreeBSD
> users have been told to check {src/ports}/UPDATING for 20+
> years.
UPDATING is for individual POLA violations, CHANGES is for the framework,
MOVED is for renames/deletions. For now flavors changed the way to install
py* ports for non-default python version thus got an UPDATING entry.
> A change that fundamentally changes the way users interact with ports/
> should document.
That's an overstatement. Non-assisted builds (e.g. "make install")
mostly work as before.
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