Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:10:49 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r310063 - in head: . sysutils/cfengine Message-ID: <20130108071049.GP85686@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <201301080433.r084X9IR015052@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201301080433.r084X9IR015052@svn.freebsd.org>
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--4SRTEifjNkXp0Rce Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 04:33:09AM +0000, Glen Barber wrote: > Author: gjb > Date: Tue Jan 8 04:33:08 2013 > New Revision: 310063 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/310063 >=20 > Log: > Implement the concept of a "master" port for the set of > sysutils/cfengine* ports. > =20 > The idea here is two-fold: > =20 > 1.) Users should not need to ever change port origins > for a default software version bump; > 2.) Users should expect to exist an unversioned port > directory to reflect the latest major version (and > they should be correct in this expectation). > =20 > With this change, users can install the sysutils/cfengine > port, and by default track the latest major version of the > software. Subsequent version releases, for example the 3.5 > branch, will not require any interaction from user side. > =20 > Additionally, users can stay on a certain branch release by > adding, in this case, CFENGINE_VERSION version to make.conf > or specifying the branch during build time with: > =20 > # make CFENGINE_VERSION=3DNN > =20 > The list of available CFENGINE_VERSION values are listed > with: > =20 > # make -V VERSIONS > =20 > Discussed with: cy >=20 Nice! In my opinion this should be followed by all/most? ports with multi version in the ports tree, this will fix also fix tracking in binary work m= ajor upgrades (aka change of default version) with no manuall intervention. regards, Bapt --4SRTEifjNkXp0Rce Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlDrxnkACgkQ8kTtMUmk6ExU+gCeLKmls9qPfsPtpISayHksJwoS iE8AnA4Jz7G3N01PQy51exLqUBiInOdE =ui32 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4SRTEifjNkXp0Rce--
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