Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:13:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions from a unix dummy..... Message-ID: <199708261409.KAA23704@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <9708261412.AA132879@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
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On Tue, 26 Aug 1997 rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu wrote: > > > > On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > > > Officially ports are only supported on -stable. This is to keep > > > the amount of work manageable. However, if you find a port that > > > doesn't work on -current or any other release (PROVIDED you are > > > using an up-to-date bsd.port.mk and friends), you are encouraged > > > to send patches in a pr. > > > > This is wrong, IMHO. Ports should build on the latest official release. > > > > Jamie Bowden > > From the philosophical point of view, why is it not acceptable that ports > should make on ANY FreeBSD box? Assuming that one starts from fresh > archive sources (and it seems to this unix dummy that they do) unless one > has more than trivial patches, a make is a make is a make. I have ported > a lot of minor things to my boxes (aix/minix/linux/FreeBSD). Aside from the > quirks of my early aix 1.2 and my minix not being ``GCC compliant'', I find > that essentially everything makes out of the box on all the machines. > Porting is not that difficult anymore (99% of the time). Most sources make > out of the box with any sort of half-intelligent configure script. That > would make me still think a common ports tree across all FreeBSD platforms > would be an ideal goal, and not that difficult to attain. Then, again, I > am just the unix dummy..... > > Bob Keys > rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu > There are significant changes from 1.x to 2.x, and from 2.1.x to 2.2.x. I am sure there are significant differences as well from 2.2.x to what will be 3.x Jamie Bowden System Administrator, iTRiBE.net
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