Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:04:43 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add Makefile add.h extract.c futil.c main.c perform.c pkg_add.1 src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/create Makefile create.h main.c perform.c main.c perform.c ... Message-ID: <1092287083.796.29.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> In-Reply-To: <20040812030913.GD27338@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20040812012909.GA25768@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <2CD52765-EC03-11D8-887A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> <20040812030913.GD27338@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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--=-1eF8rEa6/BAC98Hh2EKs Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 20:09, Ken Smith wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:58:58AM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: >=20 > > Ok, I'll write a patch then. >=20 > [ I said some of this to Oliver privately but it's probably worth > saying louder... ] >=20 > First thank you, the effort is appreciated. >=20 > Second some people had asked that this be backed out. It sounds like > Oliver is agreeable to adding -c so I'm OK with his previous commit > remaining in RELENG_4 as long as adding -c doesn't take too long. > Despite some users who probably shouldn't be tracking RELENG_4, it > *is* the -stable *development* branch. Paranoid users should at this > point be tracking RELENG_4_10 instead. Having -c disappear from > RELENG_4 for a brief time is OK as long as it re-appears in a reasonable > amount of time (and way before we start talking 4.11-RELEASE). I'm not sure if I want to be replying to this thread, but I might have a thing or two to say about this subject. As the original author of pkg_version (the Perl one), I wish I had never added the -c option. Of the users I have talked to who used this option, the majority used it wrongly (as a package updating script). In hindsight, this was basically a foot-shooting device. :-( If anyone had asked me about this before jumping all over eik@, I would have recommended that we lose the option as a service to our users.=20 Sorry, but that's the way I feel. In any case, thanks to eik@ for doing the work, and thanks to everyone else who believed they were doing The Right Thing (TM). Peace, Bruce. --=-1eF8rEa6/BAC98Hh2EKs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBGvpr2MoxcVugUsMRAl1NAJ9BDvRFyq5Cfqa4lcA9asntkWhN3gCdHc4o 1IG1lixsA4g2IxTarv1zJfU= =Gtf+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-1eF8rEa6/BAC98Hh2EKs--
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