Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 17:31:24 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update port: sysutils/gtar - 1.13.19 Message-ID: <95hf9c$2rof$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20010129173636.A49697@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <200101292045.f0TKj6q94508@gits.dyndns.org> <20010131015608.A25609@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <y9vpx39k.fsf@gits.dyndns.org>
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Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> wrote: [ introduction of MASTER_SITE_ALPHA_GNU ] > > There's a total of... find... grep... seven ports that have an > > alpha.gnu.org master site. That's hardly worth an entry in > > bsd.sites.mk. > > in fact, there are some other ports which may be upgraded from > alpha.gnu.org and some added, such as findutils, paxutils, gnubg, Let's not reverse causality. _When_ there's a sufficient number of ports that fetch their distfiles from alpha.gnu.org, _then_ we can introduce MASTER_SITE_ALPGA_GNU. It's a trivial change. (paxutils is dead, btw.) > also, I'm thinking about making these ports as -devel as gtar should > probably be ? so, it is more easy to make the distinction between the > official release and development releases. This is a problematic issue, and it probably depends on the project in question. The GNU/Linux crowd has moved to a development cycle that remains perpetually in beta. New development releases have priority over official releases, which become increasingly rare, and as a consequence more and more people run the betas. The whole process is self-reinforcing. I'm unhappy about having had to move to development releases, but gtar 1.13 suffers from non-negligible breakage, which has been fixed in subsequent 1.13.x development releases. The Linux distributions have moved to 1.13.x, too. In fact, there has been a nine month gap between 1.13.17 and 1.13.18, with 1.14 nowhere in sight. For practical purposes, there are no official releases of gtar, and the "development" ones have taken their place. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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