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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:00:00 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
Subject:   Re: NO MORE '-BETA'
Message-ID:  <20010316170000.R29888@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010316164457.A57253@hub.freebsd.org>; from TrimYourCC@nuxi.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:44:57PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103161514370.25253-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> <XFMail.010316133904.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20010316134349.K29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010316163748Z.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010316164457.A57253@hub.freebsd.org>

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* David O'Brien <TrimYourCC@nuxi.com> [010316 16:45] wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:37:48PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > I'll also expect that the ports folks will simply bump the bento
> > cluster "artificially" up to 4.4-RELEASE by setting the versions there
> > manually, so the packages will all bear the correct information.
> 
> This doesn't solve the ports problem as ports maintainers cannot use
> bento for their own build testing.  To take this approach puts us back in
> the FORTRAN, punched cards, batch days.
> 
> A ports committer under the above conditions have to see in the bento
> error logs there was a configure problem, guess at the fix (since it
> isn't as easy to test on their own box), commit a fix, wait 24-36 hours
> later to see if indeed the commit fixed the problem, repeat if needed...

Or teach the ports committers the way to bump newver.sh themselves.
A minor step that should be trivial for them to do.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]


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