Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT

From: h h <aakuusta_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:35:42 +0000
Kevin Oberman <kob6558_at_gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Ade Lovett <ade_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> With the advent of the conversion of HEAD to 10.0-CURRENT and, as to be
>> expected, ports/ is going to be essentially unusable for a while.
>>
>> The issue stems from configure scripts (to choose something completely
>> at random) assuming that FreeBSD would never jump to a double-digit
>> major version number, and as such, various regexps for "freebsd1*" (ie:
>> FreeBSD 1.1.x) are now matching "freebsd10".
[...]
>
> aDe,
>
> Could an entry to this effect be added to UPDATING (with a matching
> entry when ports/ is "unbroken").

Also mention a workaround, e.g.

  $ export UNAME_r='9.9-BLAH'
Received on Tue Sep 27 2011 - 05:07:13 UTC

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