On 27 September 2011 10:18, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas_at_bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:28:49AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > > 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 ... > > At least there will be a long rest after > the move to 10 is complete.. until FreeBSD 100. > > -- > Anton Shterenlikht > Room 2.6, Queen's Building > Mech Eng Dept > Bristol University > University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK > Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 > Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > we can leave that to our grand children to figure out though 8)Received on Tue Sep 27 2011 - 09:57:37 UTC
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