From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 25 8:18:20 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9687137B401; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9PFI4F29478; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:18:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:18:04 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Maxim Sobolev , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/devel/automake/files patch-ab patch-ad Message-ID: <20011025081804.F28706@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20011024124641.A506@dragon.nuxi.com> <200110242104.AAA93434@ipcard.iptcom.net> <20011024144228.C12307@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011025130721.C46678@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011025130721.C46678@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:07:21PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:07:21PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:42:28PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > And I don't think that the problem > > > is as fatal as you described, you (and any other maintainer with > > > the similar problem) have at least two relatively simple workarounds: > > > > > > 1. Do a repo-copy and create a new automakeXX/autoconfXX ports, > > > > cvs@ refused to do repo copies of this nature any more. > > On what basis? Version proliferation. Take tripwire for instance. We now have 3 versions in ports. In fact "tripwire" which many would assume is the latest and greatest is the oldest version. In the old days, Satoshi wanted there to be a very good reason for duplicates of ports. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message