From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 05:30:08 2004 Return-Path: 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 10E8116A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 05:30:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B211843D5D for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 05:30:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adamw@magnesium.net) Received: (qmail 8000 invoked by uid 1252); 9 Jan 2004 13:30:01 -0000 Date: 9 Jan 2004 08:30:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:30:01 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger To: freebsd-ports Message-ID: <20040109133001.GK30356@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <3FFC03E5.7010305@iconoplex.co.uk> <200401071429.i07ETZMI068819@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20040107200838.GD86935@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20040108071730.GA53328@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040108173642.GS54743@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20040109003630.GA63979@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040109095246.GT54743@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040109095246.GT54743@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> X-Editor: Vim 6.2 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx X-ASL: 6/m/behind you User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD going? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:30:08 -0000 >> (01.09.2004 @ 0452 PST): Roman Neuhauser said, in 1.9K: << > # kris@obsecurity.org / 2004-01-08 16:36:30 -0800: > > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:36:42PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > That might be technically true, but the precise semantics of > > > "(semi-)freeze" aren't as widely known as you seem to think. > > > E. g. yesterday or today I received an email from a committer in > > > response to my two mails to ports@ (the first urging a repocopy > > > requested in a PR some time ago, the other retracting the request > > > because of the freeze) saying (paraphrased) "to my surprise I was > > > told repocopies are allowed during freeze". Some people just prefer > > > to err on the safe side. > > > > Repo-copies are not allowed during the freeze, but are any other time. > > ok, so someone (at least two people) out there is confused about > this, and this only further proves my statement about the uncertainty. Messages stating what Kris said are sent out at the beginning of every freeze. > > > Also, I would have thought the Porter's handbook would e. g. contain > > > info on preventing installation of .la files (I gathered from the > > > ports@ list that they shouldn't be installed), isn't this lack quite > > > obvious? > > > > No, please raise this on the ports list. > > ok, cc'd to ports, Mail-Followup-To set. A fix for this is given in http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/porting.html in the section entitled "Libtool Issues." # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx // adamw@FreeBSD.org // adamw@magnesium.net http://www.vectors.cx