On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Freddie Cash <fjwc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Leinier Cruz Salfran < > salfrancl.lis...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dan Nelson <dnel...@allantgroup.com> >> wrote:> Just because you >> > Anyway, the FreeBSD port maintainers usually bump the >> > revision of dependant ports when a major library like libpng gets >> upgraded, >> > to force everyone to upgrade anything that depends on it. >> > >> >> mmm .. I think it's not true because I maintain a port and i'm VERY >> VERY restricted to update the port because I depends on a mentor that >> will ONLY update the port in fbsd svn tree if I sent to him the >> tinderbox log of the sucessfully build of the port .. so I have not >> much patience to do all this things so I update the port and do ALL >> task including constructing the package into tinderbox ONLY when a new >> version of the program is available .. and I think that exists a lot >> of ports maintainers that are in same situation >> >> do you agree with me that it's difficult to a port maintainer to >> update his/her port because of this restriction???? >> > > The port maintainer doesn't *have to* update anything. When library ports > go through a library bump like this, all the ports that depend on it get an > automatic PORTREVISION bump. >
okey maybe i didn't understood the 'bump' means .. I must to thank you because of comment about this subject > All the port maintainer has to do is double-check that the port compiles > with the new version of the lib. Only if there are issues with that (which > usually get picked up by the -exp runs on the ports cluster), then the port > maintainer has to step in and fix things. > okey let me see if I understood you .. you mean that I create a 'ONE_PORT' to a specific program version and if one of the library on which the 'ONE_PORT' depends change to a major version, then the 'ports cluster' put add PORTREVISION to the 'ONE_PORT' and update the *_DEPENDS automatically???????? > 9 times out of 10, a port maintainer doesn't have to do anything with a port > until a new version of the app is released. > okey okey do not repeat again .. I read 9 times out of 10 ;) > >> could be a good idea to plan and implement a system to allow fbsd >> ports maintainers to maintain easyly the own ports via web or mail >> ONCE a fbsd mentor have uploaded his/her port to fbsd svn >> tree???????????? >> > > In several years of port maintainership, I've never had a need for anything > like this. A new version of an app I maintain is released, I update the > port locally, test it, submit a PR with the update, someone looks at it and > sends back suggestions/issues, the port is fixed locally and patches > re-submitted to the PR, and then the port is committed to the tree. > Overall, not a long process. > > If you maintain enough ports for enough time, and generate enough committed > PRs to annoy people enough, you get rewarded with a commit bit. :) > oohh .. thanks for the tip :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"