On 2016-12-16 11:08, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
There are two problems with this:
1) Many ports have no maintainer
2) Even more ports have no tests at all
We can't have our cake and eat it :)
Obviously, a STABLE repo would have to be a subset of ports, not all 26k
of them. The criteria I sp
On 16.12.2016 08:24, David Demelier wrote:
2016-12-15 17:25 GMT+01:00 Matthew Seaman :
On 2016/12/15 16:01, Olivier Duchateau wrote:
The problem is that there are no tests in FreeBSD ports. All source
based systems I've tested: pkgsrc, FreeBSD ports, OpenBSD, Gentoo;
FreeBSD is the one that hav
On 15/12/2016 9:43 PM, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
On 15.12.2016 14:16, David Demelier wrote:
[...]
What I want: a ports tree that matches the FreeBSD version like
OpenBSD. You have FreeBSD 11.0? You get a ports tree for that version
specifically. No major update, no breaking changes. Just bug
2016-12-15 17:25 GMT+01:00 Matthew Seaman :
> On 2016/12/15 16:01, Olivier Duchateau wrote:
>>> The problem is that there are no tests in FreeBSD ports. All source
>>> based systems I've tested: pkgsrc, FreeBSD ports, OpenBSD, Gentoo;
>>> FreeBSD is the one that have the most instability. Not to me
Vlad K. wrote:
The quarterly branch (Q) is intended to provide a set of "stable"
packages that in the lifetime of such a branch, receive only bug and
security fixes. That is the theory and intent behind the branch. In
practice, however:
1. The Q branch is cut off at predetermined dates (ie. n
On 2016/12/15 16:01, Olivier Duchateau wrote:
>> The problem is that there are no tests in FreeBSD ports. All source
>> based systems I've tested: pkgsrc, FreeBSD ports, OpenBSD, Gentoo;
>> FreeBSD is the one that have the most instability. Not to mention
>> committers that commit without testing t
On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:16:18 +0100
David Demelier wrote:
> 2016-11-16 13:17 GMT+01:00 Vlad K. :
> > The quarterly branch (Q) is intended to provide a set of "stable" packages
> > that in the lifetime of such a branch, receive only bug and security fixes.
> > That is the theory and intent behind t
Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote on 2016/12/15 14:43:
The problem is that there are no tests in FreeBSD ports. All source
based systems I've tested: pkgsrc, FreeBSD ports, OpenBSD, Gentoo;
FreeBSD is the one that have the most instability. Not to mention
committers that commit without testing the port,
On 15.12.2016 14:16, David Demelier wrote:
2016-11-16 13:17 GMT+01:00 Vlad K. :
The quarterly branch (Q) is intended to provide a set of "stable" packages
that in the lifetime of such a branch, receive only bug and security fixes.
That is the theory and intent behind the branch. In practice, how
2016-11-16 13:17 GMT+01:00 Vlad K. :
> The quarterly branch (Q) is intended to provide a set of "stable" packages
> that in the lifetime of such a branch, receive only bug and security fixes.
> That is the theory and intent behind the branch. In practice, however:
>
> 1. The Q branch is cut off at
Please add my voice to this..
It's not really that much that needs to be done.
lets just call it 'learning from experience'
Also, the quarterly PACKAGES should be kept around a bit longer too.
and the pkg archives need to be in a layout that the system installer
can be pointed at them in 4 years
The quarterly branch (Q) is intended to provide a set of "stable"
packages that in the lifetime of such a branch, receive only bug and
security fixes. That is the theory and intent behind the branch. In
practice, however:
1. The Q branch is cut off at predetermined dates (ie. not when it's
st
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