Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:00:34 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PORTVERSION=6.1 wrong in linux_base-62 ??? Message-ID: <20011115210034.A721@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20011115154248.B1031@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20011112060014.GA489@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <20011111232603.A14074@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20011115090311.C2084@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011115123424.B36113@kayak.xcllnt.net> <20011115154248.B1031@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:42:48PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 12:34:24PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > I don't have any plans for the 6.2 port. I didn't even create the thing > > and as I said before it should not have been created at all. > > It sounds like you do. Don't get hung up on the port directory name for > this question. Do we need to have two Linux ports for enternity? No, we can have three just like we have now :-) :-) Seriously: Shortly after linux_base-5.2 was overwritten by 6.1 people got stuck in a situation where 6.1 didn't work and 5.2 didn't exist anymore. I wanted to avoid that with 6.1 -> 7.1. The underlying thought I had was (and is) that we'd be better off with a scheme where we have two ports for a while. Removal of the older could be done at our convenience once stability with the new has been achieved. The advantage also is that it allows is to keep the older when important dependent ports cannot be upgraded for whatever reason (see below). > One > that provides RH 6.x compat and one that provides RH 7.x compatibility? In principle, yes. Once 6.x support is no longer needed we can remove the port. If Red Hat 8.x sees the day of light we can simply create a linux_base-8 port as necessary. If we need for more than a single release line, multiple ports can exist. Having the version number in the port name is not really that bad. It probably avoids a lot of headaches. I don't want us to have to deal with compatibility issues when they are not dealt with by Red Hat. I know it's not perfect, but neither is other solutions. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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