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Date:      Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:58:15 +0000
From:      "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r439421 - in head/www/nginx: . files
Message-ID:  <20170427235815.GH18747@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1493312147.66427.6.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:55:47AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 16:46 +0000, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 08:24:55AM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > > 
> > > Le 26/04/2017 ?? 18:53, Sergey A. Osokin a ??crit :
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 06:18:44PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Le 26/04/2017 ?? 01:18, Sergey A. Osokin a ??crit :
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Author: osa
> > > > > > Date: Tue Apr 25 23:18:09 2017
> > > > > > New Revision: 439421
> > > > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/439421
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Log:
> > > > > > š Upgrade from 1.10.3 to 1.12.0.
> > > > > > šš
> > > > > > š ChangeLog:	http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.12
> > > > > > šš
> > > > > > š Remove IPV6 knob, IPv6 now compiled-in automatically if
> > > > > > support is found.
> > > > > This still feels like a very bad idea.
> > > > Could you please explain what exactly is very bad here?
> > > We had that talk like a week or two ago. It means that if the
> > > package
> > > builder support IPv6 it will not work on a box without it, and if
> > > the
> > > package builder does not support IPv6, a box with IPv6 will not be
> > > able
> > > to use nginx with IPv6.
> > Then you can go ahead and enable IPv6 on the package builder like you
> > did the
> > same for the third-party moz_zip module.
> > 
> > INET6 in FreeBSD's GENERIC kernel for years, I see no reason why
> > shouldn't use it.
> 
> Why do you continue to argue with multiple people who've expressed a
> real-world need for this utterly trivial request to leave the IPV6 knob
> in place?

A workaround for a real-world has been provided.
There is no way to keep IPV6 knob's behaviour as is cause the configuration
option has been removed.
 
> In the real world I have builder machines which DO have IPv6 enabled,
> which must be able to create packages that run on machines that do NOT
> have IPv6 enabled.

Again.  It's possible to use a package built on a box with enabled IPv6
support on a box with IPv6 support disabled.

-- 
Sergey Osokin
osa@FreeBSD.org



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