On 10/1/2015 3:28 AM, Mel Pilgrim wrote: > On 2015-09-30 16:16, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> In short, there is nothing broken in pkg(8) per se. I am pretty sure >> this problem does not come up if you do everything from quarterly or >> everything from head; it's strictly an issue of conflicts between the >> two. > > More to the point, that using the default pkg settings in 10.2 and the > default branch for the ports tree resulted a situation where the two > were not compatible. Delaying the bump to MINIMAL_PKG_VERSION until > pkg-1.6.0 hit pkg.freebsd.org/*/quarterly would have avoided the issue. > If that wisdom reaches the right people among the FreeBSD committers, > then this thread will have served its purpose, IMHO. It sounds like it > did, so yay us being useful with feedback. > >> Furthermore, I suspect that if the original poster had updated his >> quarterly-branch version of pkg to the head version, he probably would >> have been able to build the other port from the head tree. > > Yes, if she had known there would at some point be a timing issue > between repo updates and bumps to MINIMAL_PKG_VERSION, she would have > deployed a non-default configuration a long time ago. ;) >
I'm more bothered that the minimal version was immediately bumped on a .0 release. The last time the minimal version was bumped was hard enough, and the issue with portmaster has been known and could have been fixed had this change been discussed properly. -- Regards, Bryan Drewery
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