From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 11 15:55:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from norn.ca.eu.org (cr965240-b.abtsfd1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.19.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2E214EE9 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpiazza@norn.ca.eu.org) Received: by norn.ca.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id AEC78760; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:54:40 -0700 From: Chris Piazza To: Nik Clayton Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Nicolas Blais , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!!! -CURRENT libtool problem. Message-ID: <19990712155440.B494@norn.ca.eu.org> References: <37810FDD.C1321FE7@videotron.ca> <37887C61.2F462FD@newsguy.com> <19990711220050.A31542@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990711220050.A31542@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 10:00:50PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 10:00:50PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > hmm... > > > > Any other question? > > Q: I want to use this cool piece of software that's in the FreeBSD > ports system. But I can't build it on my 3.x-stable system. > > Why not? > > A: Ah, sorry. The ports system only targets -current, trying to get > it to work with -stable is too much work. If you want to be sure > of using the ports system successfully you need to be running > -current. > > > Or was this policy reversed recently and I didn't notice (always a > likely possibility). Um..er... I hope you were really just being sarcastic. All ports should work on -stable as well as -current. In fact, more build on -stable than -current according to http://bento.freebsd.org/. If any ports work on one but not the other it is a bug and should be fixed. So I ask, what policy? > > [ And yes, I *know* the ports system relies on volunteers, and that if > people can't be bothered to test their ports on a -stable system then > there's not a lot we can do about it. But this does lead to the > amusing situation (for various values of "amusing") where on one hand > we're telling people not to use -current unless they really know what > they're doing, but on the other hand we're (in some cases) preventing > them from using a major piece of FreeBSD infrastructure which is > expressly designed to make life easier for exactly the sort of people > who should be running -stable. ] -Chris -- cpiazza@home.net cpiazza@FreeBSD.org "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices" -William James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message