From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 15:38:57 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A90CED00 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 15:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206c::16:87]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 725552B3E for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 15:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s55FcvQs085544 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 15:38:57 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from bdrewery@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s55FcvPZ085537 for svn-src-all@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 15:38:57 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery) Received: (qmail 65701 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2014 10:38:55 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO blah) (freebsd@shatow.net@67.182.131.225) by sweb.xzibition.com with ESMTPA; 5 Jun 2014 10:38:55 -0500 Message-ID: <53908F10.20204@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 10:38:56 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: svn commit: r266760 - head/contrib/bmake References: <201405271839.s4RIdDq8055387@svn.freebsd.org> <538D1DB7.7010508@FreeBSD.org> <20140603044638.81DF6580A1@chaos.jnpr.net> <20140603063512.GB45150@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <538F3918.6040002@FreeBSD.org> <538FE18E.7050101@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <538FE18E.7050101@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Baptiste Daroussin , src-committers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, "Simon J. Gerraty" , svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:38:57 -0000 On Wed Jun 4 22:18:38 2014, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 6/4/14, 11:19 PM, Drewery, Bryan wrote: >> On 6/4/14, 2:26 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> On 2 June 2014 23:35, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 09:46:38PM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 19:58:31 -0500, Bryan Drewery writes: >>>>>> Not sure if anyone cares, but this change breaks all ports tree >>>>>> checkouts from before 2014-05-05 on src head with this revision. >>>>> >>>>> Yes, an older ports tree would need an older bmake (or fmake). >>>>> Are we saying ports is *not* ready for that hack to be removed? >>>>> >>>> >>>> IMHO it is, just people has to be aware of that :) >>> >>> ports-announce@ is the correct location for this announcement :) >>> >> >> I think that would just confuse people. I don't think this is worthy >> of such a big announcement. I can write up something to current@ and >> ports@ though. It's really only an issue if you are trying to use >> older ports tree and why would you anyway in most cases? >> > We have a scenario where we check out a ports tree at one revision, > but then need to slide parts of it back and forth to get to a specific > revision of a port that we need. We can not affort to re-verrify every > port revision every month, so it stays at an old revision generally > but individual ports my upgrade if there is a security risk or may > remain on anold revision if a newer version breaks thins for us. (it > happens). > > If that breaks we will not be happy Are you running head base though and frequently updating? I too use an older ports tree in various places, but not following head enough where it matters much. -- Regards, Bryan Drewery