Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2012 09:36:59 +0200 From: olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de> To: Thomas Abthorpe <portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Change to the header in ports Makefiles Message-ID: <5041BB1B.4040107@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20120901064257.GA45993@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <20120901064257.GA45993@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 2012-09-01 08:42, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: > An idea has been floating around for some time, and it was brought up again > on the ports@ mailing list recently, please remove the extraneous header > information from the Makefile, leaving only the $FreeBSD$ id on the first > line. > > It is an idea that is long overdue, so from now on, the other fives lines > shall be removed. > > We do request that this be done sparingly in the short term, as we do not > want to cause any additional churn on the repo as we approach our upcoming > Ports Feature Freeze, still tentatively scheduled for September 7. > > So please proceed only on existing updates. Please do not do any sweeping > commits until we have the ports tree stablised post 9.1 tagging. Also bear > in mind that Redports/QAT queues a job for every change done to a Makefile, > we do not want to overburden the QAT at this time. It is important to allow > this service to run at peek efficiency at this time to ensure it's full > potential as we approach the upcoming Feature Freeze. > > The new look of the Makefile has been document in the Porter's Handbook, > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/quick-porting.html#PORTING-MAKEFILE. > > The next item on the todo list is to update devel/newfile for those that do > a port create. > Hi Thomas, I have a bigger change for www/apache22 (rewrite for options NG) and devel/apr1 (PR 165143) in the pipe. Those changes address at last 5+ PR's and apache22 PORTREVISION will be bumped. If possible I would have the changes in place before tagging 9.1 or should I wait until 9.1 is finished? -- Regards, olli
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