On 2009/10/28 12:45, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Wed, 28.10.2009 at 10:59:34 +0000, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> > wrote: > > if you're submitting new/updated ports, please run -current and keep > > it fairly up-to-date so that you can check things work with what's in > > the rest of the tree. > > I generally understand this argument, but there are some (local) > problems with it: > > * I can't run a full -current system, at least not until OpenBSD will > run w/o problems on a virtual machine (XEN or KVM, in my case) / not > create gotchas that I can only collect flames with.
OpenBSD works reasonably well in ESXi for this sort of thing if you really can't run -current on a real machine. > * For ports like p5-common-sense, the difference to -current is most > likely negligible, -current has Perl 5.10.1. A couple of ports have needed adjustments to work with it (at least one, shells/zoidberg, is still broken). > So... should I stop trying to create and/or update ports? No, but if you're looking to get things into the tree, it helps to make things as easy as possible for committers.
