Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:58:37 +1100 From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-10 -> FreeBSD-9.9 ? Message-ID: <20111025215837.B6AA615DE789@drugs.dv.isc.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:45:23 PDT." <20111025184523.GC47524@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <CAJ-Vmom27Z3pkbVyFhsmdt60KDSsxNmT4jLa=dQJrdUGLUNqoA@mail.gmail.com> <20111024230623.GB14274@dragon.NUXI.org> <201110250918.28709.hselasky@c2i.net> <20111025184523.GC47524@dragon.NUXI.org>
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In message <20111025184523.GC47524@dragon.NUXI.org>, "David O'Brien" writes: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:18:28AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 October 2011 01:06:23 David O'Brien wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:04:13AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > > Just an idle comment - why don't we just rename FreeBSD-10 to > > > > FreeBSD-9.9 for now, and give the ports/developers some time to "fix" > > > > bad autoconf/automake scripts? > > > > That way -current can still be used for testing/development. > > > > > > I figured someone else would respond by now... > > > > > > \aol{me too!} > > > > > > (though I suggest 9.99 as a value we'd never hit) > > > > > > I've made this change on all my local systems. > > > > Why not use 9.5.x ? > > Whould give more number space to increment? > > Eh? Sorry I don't follow -- why do we need to increment? > > "9.99" is a temperary work around to buy us just a few months time to fix > ports. Such a band-aid should not exist long enough to need to increment > anything. > > We mostly just need to not fall into things like: > > case $host_os in > [...] > freebsd1*) > ld_shlibs=no > ;; > [...] > > in 'configure'. Ok, so what's the minimum versions of the auto* and libtoo* that are fixed so I can ship BIND9 w/o freebsd1*) in configure? If I need to bump the tool versions I want to do it once. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org
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