On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:28:49AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > On 09/27/11 08:35, h h wrote: > >Kevin Oberman<kob6...@gmail.com> writes: > > > >>On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Ade Lovett<a...@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@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
