On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:45:57PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote: > How often is "so often"? The vendor branch is over a year old and the > bug that seems to annoy > most real users of bpf has been known for quite a while longer and took > a while to get into > the origin and now it only would need to be imported once. > > Or is there some larger issues I´m missing or is everybody asking the > same thing for > the same reason and a single update would "calm down" the chatter?
Well, I'm thinking I'd like to be able to use ports to install a package of a recent tcpdump snapshot, as code of my own is in there now and I use it regularly with a project I'm working on. ports support would be beneficial (no need to mess around with cvs checkouts all the time, use a known good snapshot to build a package, unless hacking on tcpdump/pcap). tcpdump/pcap reside in vendor branches which other committers can't touch, the rules of the road are that re@ have the final say, and specific people have responsibility for the vendor branches. ports would seem to be an acceptable halfway house, though, for people who want to use pcap/tcpdump of a more recent vintage, than has been determined to be suitable for a FreeBSD release. does it not? BMS _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
