Where is FreeBSD going?

[Adam Weinberger]

>> (01.09.2004 @ 0452 PST): Roman Neuhauser said, in 1.9K: <<
> # kris at obsecurity.org / 2004-01-08 16:36:30 -0800:
> > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:36:42PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > >     That might be technically true, but the precise semantics of
> > >     "(semi-)freeze" aren't as widely known as you seem to think.
> > >     E. g. yesterday or today I received an email from a committer in
> > >     response to my two mails to ports@ (the first urging a repocopy
> > >     requested in a PR some time ago, the other retracting the request
> > >     because of the freeze) saying (paraphrased) "to my surprise I was
> > >     told repocopies are allowed during freeze".  Some people just prefer
> > >     to err on the safe side.
> > 
> > Repo-copies are not allowed during the freeze, but are any other time.
>  
>     ok, so someone (at least two people) out there is confused about
>     this, and this only further proves my statement about the uncertainty.

Messages stating what Kris said are sent out at the beginning of every
freeze.

> > >     Also, I would have thought the Porter's handbook would e. g. contain
> > >     info on preventing installation of .la files (I gathered from the
> > >     ports@ list that they shouldn't be installed), isn't this lack quite
> > >     obvious?
> > 
> > No, please raise this on the ports list.
> 
>     ok, cc'd to ports, Mail-Followup-To set.

A fix for this is given in
	http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/porting.html
in the section entitled "Libtool Issues."

# Adam


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