From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 3 12:29:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.clickarray.com (clickwall.clickarray.com [216.132.92.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A56637B719; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 12:29:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from vader.clickarray.com (nattedaddress.clickarray.com [10.2.1.199]) by mail.clickarray.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F975EF09; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 12:36:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by vader.clickarray.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f23KTaK30396; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 12:29:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: vader.clickarray.com: asami set sender to asami@cs.berkeley.edu using -f To: Peter Pentchev Cc: Maxim Sobolev , ports@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support References: <200102230817.f1N8HN506575@vader.clickarray.com> <3A963091.8058B7D@FreeBSD.org> <20010223123030.E1899@ringworld.oblivion.bg> From: asami@clickarray.com (Satoshi Asami) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 03 Mar 2001 12:29:36 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20010223123030.E1899@ringworld.oblivion.bg> (Peter Pentchev's message of "Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:30:30 +0200") Message-ID: Lines: 56 User-Agent: T-gnus/6.14.5 (based on Gnus v5.8.7) (revision 06) SEMI/1.13.7 (Awazu) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) Emacs/20.7 (i386--freebsd) MULE/4.0 =?ISO-2022-JP?B?KBskQjJWMWMbKEIp?= Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi everyone, Sorry for the delay. Due to a disk problem on bento (thanks Peter Wemm for fixing it!), the package build took much longer than expected. The latest and final 3-stable packgaes are up for ftp now. * From: Peter Pentchev * On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:42:41AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: * > Satoshi Asami wrote: * > * > > Hi all, * > > * > > As you may all know, the 3-stable branch has slowly being phased out * > > for a while now. This is true for both the tree itself and the ports * > > collection; fewer and fewer ports committers have 3-stable machines to * > > test with, and the list of build errors kept growing little by little. * > > * > > Thus, I have decided to stop building 3-stable packages. The next run * > > which starts in a few hours will be the last one for 3-stable. Of * > > course, this last set of packages will be left on ftp.FreeBSD.org for * > > a long time, just like the last set of 2.2.* packages. * > > * > > Thanks for your help. We can now concentrate all our resources on * > > only two branches. (For a while anyway. ;) * > * > Cool. Please indicate when you have last run completed, so we can start * > removing 3-stable specific hacks from ports (FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS, USE_NEWGCC, * > etc). * * Hmm.. I don't really think Satoshi meant we are completely stopping support * for 3.x in the Ports collection; just packages for the present. Actually I meant something in between. The policy will be similar to what we had at the end of 2.2-stable support. (1) No packages will be build for 3-stable anymore. The last set just put up for ftp will remain there as a last snapshot for a long time. (2) Whatever there is in bsd.port.mk to support 3-stable will remain there for at least a few months. (3) Porters are no longer required to test port builds on 3-stable. In particular, new ports do not need any consideration for 3-stable builds. (4) As a corollary of 2 and 3, when updating existing ports, porters will have an option of removing 3-stable support. The idea is to give 3-stable users a fighting chance to use the latest ports while not burdening the porters with any extra work for 3-stable support. Hope this clears it up. -PW To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message