Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT

2011-09-28 Thread h h
Garrett Cooper writes: >> >> So if I change /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh to something like vers 9.9 I'm >> not >> going to shoot myself in the foot if I try and update? I would really like to >> avoid downgrading this box.I've altready been bitten once today and had to >> build packages on my ti

Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT

2011-09-28 Thread h h
"Hartmann, O." writes: > On 09/28/11 09:26, Hartmann, O. wrote: > >> On 09/28/11 15:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >>> Eitan Adler wrote: >>> 2011/9/27 O. Hartmann : > Now I understand why some OS vendors have choosen the latin > 10 'X' for their tenth version of their operating s

Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT

2011-09-27 Thread h h
Michael Butler writes: > On 09/27/11 02:37, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> >> On 27/09/2011, at 13:33, Ade Lovett wrote: >>> That is to say, until 9.0-R happens, and for some considerable period >>> afterwards, ya'll can pretty much expect ports/ to be non-functional on >>> HEAD. PRs mentioning thi

Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT

2011-09-27 Thread h h
Eduardo Morras writes: > At 11:18 27/09/2011, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> > 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 1

Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2

2011-09-27 Thread h h
Holger Kipp writes: > Am 27.09.2011 um 10:48 schrieb Thomas Mueller: > >>> From Brett Glass : >> >>> Unfortunately, due to past history, /usr is mixed-use. It normally >>> contains both configuration information -- e.g. /usr/local/etc -- >>> and more volatile data such as users' home directories.

Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT

2011-09-27 Thread h h
Kevin Oberman writes: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Ade Lovett 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 completel