On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 09:47:20AM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote: Dear Adam,
first of all I thank you and all contributers. In my optinion things are running as smooth as possible. One must be extreme optimistic to expect such a change to happen without any issues. > > On 3 Dec, 2017, at 6:31, Eric Masson <e...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > Is ports/head becoming the alter ego of src/head (possible breakages or > > disruptive new features from time to time) ? > > Categorically, yes, though major breakages are rare. Situations like this, > where a major new feature gets introduced and the FreeBSD developers and > community hunt down problems and solve them, is strictly the role of HEAD. > While of course we can make no *guarantees* in either branch, ports-secteam > works very hard to inspect everything that gets merged to quarterly. > As far as I know it takes a little amount of time to have changes merged to quarterly. This might be of interest in case of securtity issues only. > > If yes, this should be written down in the handbook (chapter on ports > > still states ports/head for svn retrieval) and quarterly ports branches > > should be publicized. > > I had no idea that the handbook was still directing people straight to HEAD. > You're absolutely right, that should be changed. Unfortunately, directing > people to an SVN path is difficult, because the SVN URL changes every 3 > months, > and switching an SVN branch from one path to another isn't completely trivial. > > For binary package users, new installs always default to installing packages > from quarterly, but we could do more to urge port builders toward quarterly > branches too. > I think the situation is good as it is now. Newcommers are and have been encouraged to use packages first. With the introduction of falvors more users might be happy with packages. Everything is well documented. With poudriere or synth there is no effect on the host if the build fails just because some unlucky situation. I think for most useres there is no need to rebuild the ports day by day. Thank you and all the others for all your effort! And whatever you will do, someone will volunteer to complain;-). Kind regards, Christoph _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
