Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:09:06 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, d@delphij.net, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/locale utf8.c Message-ID: <47263DE2.3020909@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20071029131725.GA74608@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <200710150951.l9F9pUm7026506@repoman.freebsd.org> <200710261141.51639.jhb@freebsd.org> <1193414454.7390.20.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> <200710261224.41369.jhb@freebsd.org> <1193424434.7390.44.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> <20071026203013.GA99714@dragon.NUXI.org> <1193435169.96540.3.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20071027210146.GA37660@dragon.NUXI.org> <4723B431.6010507@FreeBSD.org> <20071029131725.GA74608@dragon.NUXI.org>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:57:05PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> David O'Brien wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:46:09PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: >>>> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 13:30 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 02:47:13PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: >>>>>> If portmgr@ uses RELENG_6 to base their builds on breaking forward >>>>>> compat would mean all consumers of packages-6-stable would also >>>>>> need to use RELENG_6. >>>>> When did this sease being a requirement? >>>>> 'pkg_add -r' certainly enforces this requirement. `pkg_add -r jive' >>>>> on 6.2-RELEASE will always pull from the packages-6.2-release/ and >>>>> not packages-6-stable/. >>>> I thought you could use portupgrade on a 6.2-REL system and have it >>>> pull the packages from a packages-6-stable tree. >>> This is not the case for 'portupgrade -P[P]': > .. > [ pkgtools.rb code snipped ] > >> portupgrade uses the same environment variables that pkg_add does that >> allow the user to override the default to packages-6-stable/. Many >> users do this. > > And they could also symlink libc.so.6 to libc.so.7, set PACKAGESITE to > specify packages-7-current and 'pkg_add -r'. Many, many things will work > fine. But that doesn't mean we guarentee it will work in all cases. > Folks are lucky where it works (using X-stable packages on X-release), > but its not something we can garentee unless we want -stable to be > -stale. Fortunately your concerns are not relevant here since reasonable workarounds exist. Kris
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