Last flavorless revision?

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Tue Dec 5 16:44:51 UTC 2017


On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 09:13:38AM +0100, 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.
> 

Any user who uses portmaster runs into problems after 455205.
How does that "not change anything"?

-- 
Steve


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