Andy Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:47, Heino Tiedemann wrote: >> My Story: >> >> At the begining of the last week: KDE came in new minor version >> 3.5.1. I compiled all the night, and all the next day. > > You wanted the latest KDE, didn't you?
At that moment: yes. But compiling it 2 times more in the same week: no >> Well, after that, one or two days later, there was a recomendation in >> UPDATING: >> >> ,----[ /usr/ports/UPDATING ] >> >> | 20060202: >> | AFFECTS: users of textproc/expat2 >> | AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> | >> | Users of expat2 (and its many dependencies) should do the >> | following to properly update expat2 and all of its dependencies: >> | >> | portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2 >> >> `---- >> >> Well, I compiled all night und all day, but 1 fails und 11 (or 12) >> skipped. I compiled again these 12 (or 13) Ports - it was mostly >> kde-stuff (-base, -libs, -i18n,..). > > This one's out of our hands, we don't maintain expat2, and there wasn't > a great deal we could do about it. I Understand. Sorry, if you faal attacked. My Article schuld be post to expat maintainer... >> Today - yeah yeah, today is a fine day, because the compiling mess is >> over. What a wunderfull morning... > > -21C and sunny here. LOL ;-) >> just make a cvsup, to see everything is up to date >> AAARGH....WH... WHAT IS THIS: >> >> fontconfig < >> kdebase < >> kdegraphics < >> pcre < > > kdegraphics has a security fix. > kdebase had a usability fix. > > You do want that we fix security issues, don't you? Okay, youre right. Maby I'm a little bit annoyed about a security fix after the short time (only a few days). >> Just WHY? > > Because it's impossible for all the various maintainers to 100% > coordinate commits to avoid the rebuilds. The expat2 one was painful, > at least here it affected 240 ports, some of which were large. > >> Is there now way to avoid that amount of compiling sessions? > > There are several ways you can avoid it: > > Wait for packages. > Wait for a few days after a major version update to see if anything else > needs fixing (quite often we have to make minor tweaks) I will do that. > Install something other than FreeBSD No ;-) > Sell your PC and become a hermit in a cave with no electricity. I see, you fell pissed - sorry. You maintainers do a great job. Of course you do. Heino _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
