Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:34:07 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org, gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: devel/gettext upgrade [patch] Message-ID: <20010529223407.D41667@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200105292057.f4TKvJo20606@mail.uic-in.net>; from sobomax@mail-in.net on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:57:22PM %2B0300 References: <301834998.20010529225134@Chg.RU> <200105292057.f4TKvJo20606@mail.uic-in.net>
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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:57:22PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Personally I'm in favour of (4), but not sure that I'll be able to do
> all the work necessary. Perhaps someone has a better idea or
> willing to do the actual work.
(5) do absolutely nothing until it has gained the approval of portmgr@
(cc'd on this message, others trimmed).
devel/gettext, just like devel/libtool, has a *huge* number of
dependencies. Certainly, it will cripple both GNOME and KDE in
their current forms.
I veto this change both as primary FreeBSD/GNOME co-ordinator,
and also a member of portmgr@. Remember, bento is still the
primary building cluster. We cannot test changes there. We
need a second bento for testing modifications in a smaller
scale, before releasing it to bento, to see what really breaks,
before committing.
This whole thing reeks of versionitis. Make a new port, after repo
copy (devel/gettext-devel) - this will probably be relatively short
lived. Next, create a new knob in bsd.port.mk for USE_GETTEXT,
only it has values "old" and "new", with dependencies set appropriately.
This will provide a simple mechanism to convert ports, one at a time,
over to the new scheme of things. Once it's done, it's a simple matter
of updating devel/gettext with the new version (perhaps retaining
a devel/gettext-old for those stubborn ports), switching the meanings
of "old" and "new" for USE_GETTEXT, and we break *nothing*.
-aDe
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Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org
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