ports/156857: split lang/gcc* ports in stable and devel versions

[Martin Birgmeier]

>Number:         156857
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       split lang/gcc* ports in stable and devel versions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May 07 07:30:09 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Martin Birgmeier
>Release:        7.4, 8.2
>Organization:
MBi at home
>Environment:
irrelevant
>Description:
I would appreciate splitting the lang/gcc* ports into stable and development versions. These ports are prerequisites for several other ports and therefore installed without explicit requirement by the user.

The lang/gcc* port maintainer does a very laudable job of always (weekly!) updating these ports to their latest versions. Unfortunately, this leads to repeated rebuilds when running portupgrade or portmaster, which in turn requires a long build time without apparent benefits.
>How-To-Repeat:
Run portupgrade or portmaster every day, with one of the lang/gcc* ports installed.
>Fix:
The lang/gcc* ports should be split into stable and development versions.

In my opinion it would be best to use the current names for the stable versions, and to add new -devel ports carrying the continuously updated versions, e.g.

lang/gcc46 for the stable version
lang/gcc46-devel for the continuously updated version

The stable version would then only be upgraded when its micro version changes upstream (e.g., from 4.6.0 to 4.6.1), or when there is a critical fix to apply (thereby increasing the FreeBSD revision).

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