/usr/ports/UPDATING announcement (was: Re: Xorg built fails on CURRENT: can't find Xauth.h)

[Joan Picanyol]

* Dan Langille <dan at langille.org> [20040728 03:13]:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 15:37, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > > From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko at verizon.net>
> > > > But... there is nothing in UPDATING. I have copied the list just in case
> > > > someone out there thinks there should be. Right now:
> > > >
> > > > sunny:RabbitsDen>grep -i xorg UPDATING
> > > > sunny:RabbitsDen>grep -i libwnck UPDATING
> > > > sunny:RabbitsDen>grep -i libxklavier UPDATING
> > > > sunny:RabbitsDen>ls -l UPDATING
> > > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  69125 Jul 25 16:37 UPDATING
> > > >
> > > > Considering that this is ports issue, I honestly did not expect
> > > > anything in UPDATING anyway.
> > > >
> > > Which UPDATING file?
> > > > ls -l /usr/ports/UPDATING
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  19155 Jul 27 03:56 /usr/ports/UPDATING
> > >
> > > ports has its own and that is where to look for such information on ports.
> >
> > This is EXACTLY the reason that we need to ADVERTISE the NEW UPDATING
> > file much more!  I encountered another problem which had an entry in
> > /usr/ports/UPDATING, but since I completely missed the months-old
> > announcement of the creationof the file, I never looked there and got
> > yelled at my many, many people for my supposed stupidity!
> 
> I'm all for announcing it.  I never heard of it until last week.  I too
> was told to read it, I was stupid for not reading it, why aren't you
> reading it?

Me too :o

> > We need to have a regular announcement on -CURRENT, -STABLE and all
> > ports-related newsgroups that /usr/ports/UPDATING exists and needs to be
> > looked at regularly!  Just because someone created it many months ago
> > does not mean that everyone knows about it!
> 
> It needs to go out on freebsd-announce IMHO.

And the Handbook as well.

qvb
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