On 23.09.2014 16:09, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> Just a thought here - why (like .rpm and .deb - and the reason I hate >> them so much) are you making the package manager version a dependency of >> a package? I can understand if there are new features that you may need >> to use a later version to get those features, but making a package >> dependent on the package manager rather than displaying a warning that a >> feature is missing is the brain dead way that plagues upgrades for >> redhat and debian. Of course if your intent is to make FreeBSD into >> another Linux distro just with a different kernel, continue. >> > > There are new feature, that is why, the required version will be only bumped > when there will be new features used by the ports tree, not on every pkg bump
Please, please do document what new features resulted in MINIMAL_PKG_VERSION bump. And please, delay bumping of MINIMAL_PKG_VERSION until packages of pkg itself are available from the repo. Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
