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Date:      Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:45:39 -0800
From:      Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, aakuusta@gmail.com, "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <201109281245.40015.beech@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E838127.5090601@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20110926230335.041fd9aa@lab.lovett.com> <4E8377F1.7020906@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4E838127.5090601@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wednesday 28 September 2011 12:18:47 Doug Barton wrote:
> On 09/28/2011 12:39, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> > The mess started to happen when I tried to "repair" a non CLANG
> > compiling port math/gotoblas with portmaster -vf amth/gotoblas.
> > Since this build binutils and even gettext and libiconv, I guess they
> > got broken. Last I saw was a successful installation report from
> > portmaster. But the libiconv.so.3 wasn't there anymore when I checked!
> > 
> > This is a catastrophy ...
> > 
> > I'm on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT r225844
> 
> It's been widely reported on the ports list that you can't do fresh
> ports compiles on 10-current, and won't be able to until well after
> 9.0-RELEASE. The primary reason is that auto* stuff doesn't understand
> the 2-digit release version.
> 
> Solutions are to set UNAME_r=9.0-CURRENT in your environment, and/or
> twiddle the version in newvers.sh and rebuild/reinstall your kernel.
> 
> 
> hth,
> 
> Doug

So if I change /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh to something like vers 9.9 I'm not 
going to shoot myself in the foot if I try and update? I would really like to 
avoid downgrading this box.I've altready been bitten once today and had to 
build packages on my tindy and force install.

Beech

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