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Subject: [HEADSUP]: Partial ports thaw
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The ports tree is now tagged and partially thawed. Until 9.0 is
released, sweeping commits still need explicit approval from portmgr to
assure that tags can be slipped for potential security issues. For more
information what constitutes a sweeping change, see the portmgr web
pages[1].

-erwin

1: http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/implementation.html#sweeping_changes

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Erwin Lansing                                   http://droso.org
Prediction is very difficult
especially about the future                    erwin@FreeBSD.org