Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 08:19:18 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New 5.0 ports uploaded Message-ID: <20021019051918.GC14922@vega.vega.com> In-Reply-To: <20021019012219.GA86396@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20021019012219.GA86396@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 06:22:19PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > A new set of 5.0 packages has been uploaded and is making its way out > to mirror sites. I will soon be sending out mail to all maintainers > of broken ports asking for submissions of fixes (or at least reporting > the breakage to the relevant vendors). > > In the meantime, please visit > http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/5-latest/index-maintainer.html and > check for your name for any broken ports you maintain. I have had a > complaint that the "new-style" bento pages do not render on Netscape > 4..I hope to take a look at this over the weekend, but in the meantime > you can use any browser written in the last 5 years to read it :-) > > At some point before 5.0-RELEASE I will go through and mark all ports > listed on bento as BROKEN (consider this fair warning: I will not > entertain any complaints from port maintainers who take offense on the > basis of ignorance of any build problems). Please don't do this, because breakage on 5.0 in vast majority of cases doesn't imply breakage on 4.x, due to huge number of differencies between those two. This move will likely to massively distract our -stable users, who are the majority of FreeBSD users at this point. Thanks! -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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