ports tree tagging again
Jean-Baptiste Quenot
jbq at caraldi.com
Sun Aug 20 01:09:04 UTC 2006
* Roman Bogorodskiy:
> 2. Port tree is unstable
>
> IMO, port tree is not very stable. I mean: we're all human and
> more or less often make mistakes and inaccurate commits. So you
> cannot be sure that if you cvsup/portsnap your tree, it will not
> break something (e.g. because of some typo). It's OK to have
> such errors in general, and we can do nothing with it, but there
> are a lot of silly errors which could be avoided and you
> definitely don't deal with on a stable system.
However on a stable system you are probably not upgrading your
ports every day.
And even if you're upgrading the ports. I'm using FreeBSD for 5
years now, and I never encountered problems caused by inaccurate
commits, because most of the time those errors are fixed very
quickly.
Most errors I get from ports are caused by outdated dependency
conflicts, not by committers or maintainers mistake.
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Jean-Baptiste Quenot
aka John Banana Qwerty
http://caraldi.com/jbq/
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