From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Aug 23 17:31:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10694 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:31:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vader.cs.berkeley.edu (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10689 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca10-63.ix.netcom.com [205.186.214.63]) by vader.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA19585 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.8.8/8.6.9) id RAA27319; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808240030.RAA27319@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ports tree unstable now From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Reply-To: postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello ports users, As some of you may have noticed, the ports tree is currently undergoing major overhaul. Some new variables have been added to bsd.port.mk, and some existing ones have disappeared. Also, the recent perl5 upgrade has caused a few dozen ports to simply stop working. I apologize for the confusion. We are fixing them now, but it will take a few more days. In the meantime, I suggest that you be extremely careful if you are cvsupping the ports tree. Some things are really broken and will cause others to fail utterly. At least, make sure you have the latest bsd.port.mk if you still want to venture into dangerous waters. If you use an old bsd.port.mk with the latest ports you may see an entire port install files in a wrong location (/usr/local vs. /usr/X11R6). (I've heard someone installed ports/x11/XFree86 with and old bsd.port.mk and have the whole X installation end up in /usr/local -- that's disaster, to say the least! ;) The latest version of this file (the Id string) is 1.284 for -current and 1.227.2.46. I will post another announcement to this list when I believe all ports are fixed. Until then, I recommend people who aren't following the ports list or cvs list to use packages. Packages-stable is being populated now as I speak, those should give you much better luck than ports. Again, sorry for the inconvenience. Satoshi (and the great ports team) This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message