Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 11:21:38 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 5.0-RELEASE ports freeze starts on Sunday Message-ID: <3DDF56B2.4010607@liwing.de> References: <20021122220616.GB27690@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sunday night at 8pm PST (2am Monday morning GMT) the ports tree > will enter ports freeze in preparation for 5.0-RELEASE. > > 5.0 package builds will be run continuously on i386 and alpha, the > progress of which can be viewed online at the usual locations: > > i386: http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/5-latest/ > alpha: http://beta.freebsd.org/errorlogs/5-latest/ > > Packages can be downloaded from: > > i386: http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/packages-5-latest/ > alpha: http://beta.freebsd.org/errorlogs/packages-5-latest/ > > e.g. by setting the PACKAGESITE variable with pkg_add. > > ** NO UNAPPROVED COMMITS TO THE PORTS COLLECTION DURING THIS TIME ** > > This rule will be strictly enforced. > > The only exception to this rule is that commits to fix build problems > on 5.0 may be done at any time without permission. I want to > encourage port committers and maintainers to use the time between now > and 5.0-RELEASE to fix port builds (don't forget that there are a lot > of uncommitted PRs containing port fixes!). > > Critical updates and security fixes will be permitted (with approval > from portmgr@), but low-priority upgrades/changes will not be. Make > sure you get any such commits in before the Sunday deadline. > > Port maintainers and others are encouraged to test their ports and the > generated packages during this time; the idea being that we hope > maintainers and users will test the packages, fix critical build > failures (especially on the often-overlooked alpha platform) and > improve the quality of the release. > > In particular, there are still over 700 packages that fail to build on > 5.0-CURRENT for the i386 platform, and even more on alpha. I'd like > to get this number down under 500. If you are a port maintainer and > wish your port to be available to users of the forthcoming > 5.0-RELEASE, NOW is the time to do something about it. > > Kris > Will the patch for wchar_t support be included in that? Jens -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: <rehsack@liwing.de> Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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