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Date:      Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:35:42 +0000
From:      h h <aakuusta@gmail.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, ade@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <86mxdqfq69.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1t5wJ3%2B4LG=upL6sR7tSNU6Uhx-y=L0AJm6rKFsKnvPiQ@mail.gmail.com> (Kevin Oberman's message of "Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:56:26 -0700")
References:  <20110926230335.041fd9aa@lab.lovett.com> <CAN6yY1t5wJ3%2B4LG=upL6sR7tSNU6Uhx-y=L0AJm6rKFsKnvPiQ@mail.gmail.com>

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Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> With the advent of the conversion of HEAD to 10.0-CURRENT and, as to be
>> expected, ports/ is going to be essentially unusable for a while.
>>
>> The issue stems from configure scripts (to choose something completely
>> at random) assuming that FreeBSD would never jump to a double-digit
>> major version number, and as such, various regexps for "freebsd1*" (ie:
>> FreeBSD 1.1.x) are now matching "freebsd10".
[...]
>
> aDe,
>
> Could an entry to this effect be added to UPDATING (with a matching
> entry when ports/ is "unbroken").

Also mention a workaround, e.g.

  $ export UNAME_r='9.9-BLAH'



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