From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 15:23:26 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29032F81; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:23:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from udns.ultimatedns.net (ultimatedns.net [209.180.214.225]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4C1FD9A; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ultimatedns.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by udns.ultimatedns.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t0DFKuq1041579; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 07:20:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd-lists@bsdforge.com) To: The BSD Dreamer , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mathieu Arnold In-Reply-To: <2A3ABE9AE68B3CE8E1B7C1A1@ogg.in.absolight.net> References: , <2A3ABE9AE68B3CE8E1B7C1A1@ogg.in.absolight.net> From: "Chris H" Subject: Re: BIND REPLACE_BASE option Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 07:20:56 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=fixed MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: dougb@dougbarton.us X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:23:26 -0000 On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:12:32 +0100 Mathieu Arnold wrote > I'm only going to answer that part, the rest of the thread being, I feel, > mostly FUD. Apologies for any contribution(s) I might have made in that area. > > +--On 10 janvier 2015 21:25:11 -0600 The BSD Dreamer > wrote: > | Count the > | PORTREVISIONs to bind before 9.9.4 and after. Plus look at all the other > | annoying changes in those PORTREVISIONs without that things have been > | working fine for the rest of us before. > > Yes, let's say there are two kinds of maintainers, those who keep the bugs > they find in the port until there is a new release to an absolute minimum > so that people are not scared of the number of changes, and there are > those, like me, that would rather have a dozen updates between releases, > each addressing a bug when it arises. > > The BIND ports were in such a miserable way, with kludges everywhere, when > I took over that it took me some time to get them right. I saw that mess -- more than once. Thank you for taking that on! --Chris > > -- > Mathieu Arnold > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"