Re: HEADS UP: MAJOR changes to the ports system

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:50:35 -0800
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 02:12:29PM +0300, Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote:
> ? ??, 04.02.2004, ? 11:31, Joe Marcus Clarke ?????:
> > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 03:22, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Sorry for the wide distribution, but it is critical that -CURRENT users
> > > > hear this.  Two _MAJOR_ changes just went in to the ports tree that are
> > > > bound to cause some pain to -CURRENT users.  
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm glad to hear about this and I wouldn't mind hearing regularly about
> > > major events over in the ports tree.
> > 
> > I've started doing this.  The full summary was sent to ports_at_ and
> > ports-developers_at_, plus I added a copy to /usr/ports/CHANGES.  This is
> > now the second major ports update I've summarized.  Once the archives
> > get back up to speed, you should be able to see my previous summary.
> 
> How about gettext -> gettext-old transition ? A lot of ports still 
> depends on gettext-old while others on gettext, gettext conflicts with 
> gettext-old, and, as result, portupgrade -af constatntly tries to
> install gettext-old as dependancy and fails.

Not any more...you're out of date :-)

Kris

Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 09:50:40 UTC

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