From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Nov 23 2:23: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF2237B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 02:22:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1D343E6E for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 02:22:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 33712 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2002 10:22:47 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 Nov 2002 10:22:47 -0000 Message-ID: <3DDF56B2.4010607@liwing.de> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 11:21:38 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 5.0-RELEASE ports freeze starts on Sunday References: <20021122220616.GB27690@rot13.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sunday night at 8pm PST (2am Monday morning GMT) the ports tree > will enter ports freeze in preparation for 5.0-RELEASE. > > 5.0 package builds will be run continuously on i386 and alpha, the > progress of which can be viewed online at the usual locations: > > i386: http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/5-latest/ > alpha: http://beta.freebsd.org/errorlogs/5-latest/ > > Packages can be downloaded from: > > i386: http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/packages-5-latest/ > alpha: http://beta.freebsd.org/errorlogs/packages-5-latest/ > > e.g. by setting the PACKAGESITE variable with pkg_add. > > ** NO UNAPPROVED COMMITS TO THE PORTS COLLECTION DURING THIS TIME ** > > This rule will be strictly enforced. > > The only exception to this rule is that commits to fix build problems > on 5.0 may be done at any time without permission. I want to > encourage port committers and maintainers to use the time between now > and 5.0-RELEASE to fix port builds (don't forget that there are a lot > of uncommitted PRs containing port fixes!). > > Critical updates and security fixes will be permitted (with approval > from portmgr@), but low-priority upgrades/changes will not be. Make > sure you get any such commits in before the Sunday deadline. > > Port maintainers and others are encouraged to test their ports and the > generated packages during this time; the idea being that we hope > maintainers and users will test the packages, fix critical build > failures (especially on the often-overlooked alpha platform) and > improve the quality of the release. > > In particular, there are still over 700 packages that fail to build on > 5.0-CURRENT for the i386 platform, and even more on alpha. I'd like > to get this number down under 500. If you are a port maintainer and > wish your port to be available to users of the forthcoming > 5.0-RELEASE, NOW is the time to do something about it. > > Kris > Will the patch for wchar_t support be included in that? Jens -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message