On 2024-08-16 07:09, Dimitry Andric wrote:
On 16 Aug 2024, at 15:49, Chris <portmas...@bsdforge.com> wrote:
On 2024-08-16 00:37, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
On 16/08/2024 01:34, henrichhart...@tuta.io wrote:
Hi Miroslav,
Please see my email titled: "Quarterly backport for multimedia/x265
patch" sent to this list a few hours before yours. Shortly after sending
it, the patch was committed to 2024Q3. Builders will have to catch up,
but hopefully things can be resolved.
I do feel like this could have been caught and fixed faster with some
better alerting. I've heard of pkg-fallout and know little of it, but
maybe it should have noticed this? Or did it? I have no idea.
I know it's a terrible experience when pkg is wanting to remove your
desktop packages in bulk.
Thank you for pointing to this thread.
This is really bad experience with quarterly branch. I think the branch
should be
published only after the successful build of main packages. Blindly
created
quarterly branch which is not working for about 6 weeks is terrible
experience.
While I completely agree. I'm wondering if this isn't more a pkg(8)
deficit. eg; if pkg first
determined that all/most of the packages intended to be upgraded did not
exist, issue a warn, with the
option to bail/quit. Leaving the system untouched.
Last time I checked "pkg upgrade" asks "Proceed with this action? [y/N]",
and the
default is "N". So what you are suggesting, is already the case?
Right you are. Sorry. Just got up, I'll refrain from responding before
finishing my coffee in the future. :/
This is a problem with patches (or really any distfiles) that are retrieved
from
websites which are not under FreeBSD's control. If those websites decide to
change
the contents of those files, there is not much we can do about it, and ports
which
used to work then simply break. If other ports depend on those, those break
too,
there is not much you can do, except postponing upgrades.
-Dimitry
--Chris
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