Just to make it official, the ports hard freeze has been lifted.
Ports committers are now able to perform regular updates, just no sweeping
commits without prior approval from portmgr. This period of slush will
continue until 8.4 is out the door.
Keep in mind that -exp runs are always a good ide
The FreeBSD Ports Management team as decided to do a hard freeze to
co-incide with the release of 8.4-FreeBSD RC1, tentatively scheduled for
March 30.
During this hard freeze, only security updates, critical fixes, and related
fixes related to the clean-up of the tree will be allowed. This is a
c
I am pleased to announce that Bryan Drewery, aka bdrewery@, has accepted
the gauntlet to work on the FreeBSD Ports Management Team.
Bryan first stepped into fray when he first took over portupgrade, then
added portmaster to his portfolio, and then joined in with the pkgng devs.
He has also been i
Beat Gaetzi, aka beat@, recently stepped down from his duties on the
FreeBSD Ports Management Team.
Beat joined the team in 2011, being instrutmental in migrating the ports
tree from CVS to Subversion. Beat also took over the duty of sending
pavmails, affectionately renamed beatmails.
On behalf
The FreeBSD Ports Management Team wishes to remind users that February 28
was the end of support for the Ports Collection for both FreeBSD 7.4
RELEASE and the FreeBSD 7.x STABLE branch. Neither the infrastructure nor
individual ports are guaranteed to work on these FreeBSD versions after
that date
Mark Linimon, aka linimon@, recently stepped down from his duties on the
FreeBSD Ports Management Team.
Mark joined the team back in 2004, providing nine years of continuity to
the Ports Infrastructure. Among the many things Mark did, was maintaining
and documenting the current portbuild system
Just to make it officially official, the ports feature freeze has been
lifted.
Ports committers are now entitled to perform sweeping commits. Keep in mind
that -exp runs are always a good idea if you think there is a significant
change to the ports tree.
And just remember, PLEASE TRY TO NOT BREAK
The FreeBSD Ports Management team is pleased to welcome Bernhard Froelich,
aka decke@, to it's ranks.
Bernhard was a long time ports contributor, and received his ports commit
bit back in March 2010.
More recently, Bernhard was the one responsible for bringing us
Redports.org shared tinderbox.
P
Pav Lucistnik, aka pav@, recently stepped down from his roll on the FreeBSD
Ports Management team.
Pav started on portmgr back in November 2006, he was the one responsible
for many of the -exp runs over the years. His most dubious claim to fame
was talking over the responsibility of krismails. We
FreeBSD 9.1 RC2 has been pulicly announced, it is now time for the the
Ports Feature Freeze.
Normal upgrade, new ports, and changes that do not affect other ports will
be allowed without prior approval, but with the extra
Feature safe: yes
tag in the commit message. Any commit that is sweeping,
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 04:22:46PM +, Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
[...]
>
> The Whom line from the classic six line header becomes Created By.
>
> Sometimes, as a result of a repocopy, or changed maintainership, the
> Created By and MAINTAINER is no longer in synchronisa
It was recently posted on,
http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2012/09/01/change-to-the-header-in-ports-makefiles/
that we would adopt a new header for the ports Makefiles. The initial
discussion seemed to show enough support for the idea of completely
stripping the header, leaving only the $FreeB
It was recently posted on,
http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2012/09/01/change-to-the-header-in-ports-makefiles/
that we would adopt a new header for the ports Makefiles. The initial
discussion seemed to show enough support for the idea of completely
stripping the header, leaving only the $FreeB
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 06:42:58AM +, Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
> An idea has been floating around for some time, and it was brought up again
> on the ports@ mailing list recently, please remove the extraneous header
> information from the Makefile, leaving only the $FreeBSD$ id on
An idea has been floating around for some time, and it was brought up again
on the ports@ mailing list recently, please remove the extraneous header
information from the Makefile, leaving only the $FreeBSD$ id on the first
line.
It is an idea that is long overdue, so from now on, the other fives l
Florent Thoumie, aka flz@, recently stepped down from his roll on the
FreeBSD Ports Management team.
Florent started on portmgr back in August 2008, being instrumental in
maintaining the legacy pkg_* code plus other aspects of the ports
infrastructure, including but not limited to the unifying of
The FreeBSD 9.1 schedule has been published,
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html. Historically we have
done a Feature Freeze at RC1, we are going to try do it with RC2 this time,
tentatively scheduled for August 3, subject to schedule slippage.
At the time the the Release Engineeri
The migration to Subversion is done and the SVN->CVS exporter is
running.
Before committing please read the Ports Subversion Primer,
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsSubversionPrimer. Please feel to add
missing parts of fix it if something is wrong.
For those who like to mirror the repository, the s
The FreeBSD ports tree will migrate from CVS to Subversion soon. The
anticipated date for the migration is July 14th. This will have no impact
for ports tree users as there will be a SVN to CVS exporter.
Please note that cvsup will still work after the migration. Nevertheless
c(v)sup is pretty dat
FreeBSD 8.3 RC1 has been pulicly announced, it is now time for the the
Ports Feature Freeze.
Normal upgrade, new ports, and changes that only affect other branches will
be allowed without prior approval, but with the extra
Feature safe: yes
tag in the commit message. Any commit that is sweeping,
The FreeBSD 8.3 release process is under way, you can view the schedule,
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/8.3TODO
As has become the custom, a ports feature freeze is anticipated to be
announced with the RC1 date, tentatively scheduled at this time
for March 2, 2012. Watch for further announcements
.
And just remember, PLEASE TRY TO NOT BREAK THE INDEX!
Thomas
on behalf of portmgr@
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Just a heads up folks, ports that used the license ASL, for Apache
Software License 2.0, have been updated to use the proper acronym of
AL2.
Please update your Makefiles and configurations accordingly to reflect
this change.
Thomas
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