On 09/27/11 08:35, h h wrote: > 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' Now I understand why some OS vendors have choosen the latin 10 'X' for their tenth version of their operating system ...Received on Tue Sep 27 2011 - 06:28:50 UTC
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