Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 19:18:12 +0100 From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Alan Hicks <ahicks@p-o.co.uk>, Christian Ullrich <chris@chrullrich.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> Subject: Re: Last flavorless revision? Message-ID: <tvx6-jr17-wny@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20171204173346.GA65535@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> (Steve Kargl's message of "Mon, 4 Dec 2017 09:33:46 -0800") References: <20171201200751.GA17979@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <31DBA0EB-539A-4BA5-9CF7-4EDF4CAF9205@adamw.org> <20171201204348.GA1135@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <eb6472e1-ef6b-d516-bb0c-81b27f07154b@chrullrich.net> <20171202172854.GA44592@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <d176d4c0-1067-9c9b-c8d6-70e9aadd0e41@p-o.co.uk> <20171204173346.GA65535@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 11:49:30AM +0000, Alan Hicks wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 02/12/2017 17:28, Steve Kargl wrote:
>> > On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 02:06:32PM +0100, Christian Ullrich wrote:
>> >> * Steve Kargl wrote:
>> >>
>> >
>> > Given that I asked about a specific revision number, it stands
>> > to reason that I had already spent too much time wandering around
>> > svnweb.freebsd.org. An entry needs to be added to ports/UPDATING
>> > to state which revision turns on flavors and by extension neuters
>> > all port management tools except poudriere. Four months from now
>> > when users update a system finding that information by crawling
>> > through svnweb.freebsd.org will be a challenge.
>> >
>>
>> Your friend is subversion log search
>> svn log --search FLAVORS svn://svn.FreeBSD.org
>>
>> r455205 | mat | 2017-11-30 15:33:29 +0000 (Thu, 30 Nov 2017) | 13 lines
>>
>> Generic FLAVORS work.
Another way to get the revision:
$ svn blame /usr/ports/CHANGES | awk '/FLAVOR/ { rev=$1 } END { print rev }'
455205
>
> This does not document the change in ports/UPDATING. FreeBSD
> users have been told to check {src/ports}/UPDATING for 20+
> years.
UPDATING is for individual POLA violations, CHANGES is for the framework,
MOVED is for renames/deletions. For now flavors changed the way to install
py* ports for non-default python version thus got an UPDATING entry.
> A change that fundamentally changes the way users interact with ports/
> should document.
That's an overstatement. Non-assisted builds (e.g. "make install")
mostly work as before.
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