On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Kurt Jaeger <li...@opsec.eu> wrote:
> Hi! > > > I agree that there was a lot of change in the ports tree recently. > > But: There is a reason for this: The ports tree has to be cleaner > > so that it can provide better automatic processes to the users. > > It's not easy, but it's getting there. > > I found a presentation which really goes deep into the process > and reasoning behind going to pkgng and staging: > > http://www.slideshare.net/VsevolodStakhov/new-solver-for-freebsd-pkg > > Very cool stuff. > > As far as avoiding breaking things on older versions that you no longer have available or newer ones you have yet to install anywhere, remember redports,org <https://redports.org>. I find it invaluable for testing ports in a variety of environments. It currently supports 8.4, 9.2, 10.0, and HEAD on amd64 and i386. https://redports.org -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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"
