Last flavorless revision?

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Tue Dec 5 09:26:00 UTC 2017


On 05/12/2017 08:13, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Le 04/12/2017 à 18:33, Steve Kargl a écrit :
>> 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.
>> This does not document the change in ports/UPDATING.  FreeBSD
>> users have been told to check {src/ports}/UPDATING for 20+
>> years.  A change that fundamentally changes the way users
>> interact with ports/ should document.
>
> This did not change anything for the users, so there was nothing in
> UPDATING.
>
That's not true, for example it meant there was a minimum version 
requirement for poudriere without which it would fail to build any 
python packages, so if nothing else that should have been mentioned.

     Regards
     Steve


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