From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 26 11:19:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA27518 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:19:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mph124.rh.psu.edu (hunt@MPH124.rh.psu.edu [128.118.126.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA27508 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hunt@localhost) by mph124.rh.psu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA10824; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 14:19:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970826141925.32712@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 14:19:25 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions from a unix dummy..... Reply-To: Matthew Hunt References: <199708261409.KAA23704@gatekeeper.itribe.net> <9708261555.AA133414@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: <9708261555.AA133414@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu>; from rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu on Tue, Aug 26, 1997 at 11:55:50AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Aug 26, 1997 at 11:55:50AM -0400, rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu wrote: > thing for all versions of the OS. If any OS particular revision level > patches are required (and they should only be rare on FreeBSD), the > ports build should be sufficiently aware of the OS revision level to > take that into consideration. > > Still thinking, wishfully..... It is always easier to say how things should be than it is to make them that way. I have created a handful of ports. I made all of them on my 2.2-STABLE machine. I do not own a 3.0-CURRENT machine, or a 2.1-STABLE machine, or any other FreeBSD machine at all. I do not even have an account on a FreeBSD machine that is not some flavor of 2.2. Therefore, I cannot know for certain that my ports build on any other branch. Realistically, all of my ports are simple and I expect that they do build, but I do not know for certain. So, if I want to port something, who is responsible for providing me with a 1.x, 2.1, and 3.0-CURRENT machine to test on? What if I don't want to devote the time to building the port on those platforms? Should I not submit the port at all? Or is somebody at freebsd.org supposed to do that work? IIRC the discussion on -ports a couple of weeks ago, the problem is that such time is not available. I think everyone agrees that ports *should* build on as many versions as possible. But which volunteers should be volunteered to do the work, and who provides the resources? -- Matthew Hunt * Think locally, act globally. finger hunt@mph124.rh.psu.edu for PGP public key.