From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 29 20:09:05 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E478B16A419; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:09:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (pointyhat.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::2b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EDA913C4BC; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:09:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <47263DE2.3020909@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:09:06 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200710150951.l9F9pUm7026506@repoman.freebsd.org> <200710261141.51639.jhb@freebsd.org> <1193414454.7390.20.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> <200710261224.41369.jhb@freebsd.org> <1193424434.7390.44.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> <20071026203013.GA99714@dragon.NUXI.org> <1193435169.96540.3.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20071027210146.GA37660@dragon.NUXI.org> <4723B431.6010507@FreeBSD.org> <20071029131725.GA74608@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20071029131725.GA74608@dragon.NUXI.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Scott Long , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, d@delphij.net, John Baldwin , Andrey Chernov , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Ken Smith Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/locale utf8.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:09:06 -0000 David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:57:05PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> David O'Brien wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:46:09PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: >>>> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 13:30 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 02:47:13PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: >>>>>> If portmgr@ uses RELENG_6 to base their builds on breaking forward >>>>>> compat would mean all consumers of packages-6-stable would also >>>>>> need to use RELENG_6. >>>>> When did this sease being a requirement? >>>>> 'pkg_add -r' certainly enforces this requirement. `pkg_add -r jive' >>>>> on 6.2-RELEASE will always pull from the packages-6.2-release/ and >>>>> not packages-6-stable/. >>>> I thought you could use portupgrade on a 6.2-REL system and have it >>>> pull the packages from a packages-6-stable tree. >>> This is not the case for 'portupgrade -P[P]': > .. > [ pkgtools.rb code snipped ] > >> portupgrade uses the same environment variables that pkg_add does that >> allow the user to override the default to packages-6-stable/. Many >> users do this. > > And they could also symlink libc.so.6 to libc.so.7, set PACKAGESITE to > specify packages-7-current and 'pkg_add -r'. Many, many things will work > fine. But that doesn't mean we guarentee it will work in all cases. > Folks are lucky where it works (using X-stable packages on X-release), > but its not something we can garentee unless we want -stable to be > -stale. Fortunately your concerns are not relevant here since reasonable workarounds exist. Kris