HEADS UP: MAJOR changes to the ports system

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 14:24, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:31:32AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 03:22, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Sorry for the wide distribution, but it is critical that -CURRENT users
> > > > hear this.  Two _MAJOR_ changes just went in to the ports tree that are
> > > > bound to cause some pain to -CURRENT users.  
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm glad to hear about this and I wouldn't mind hearing regularly about
> > > major events over in the ports tree.
> > 
> > I've started doing this.  The full summary was sent to ports@ and
> > ports-developers@, plus I added a copy to /usr/ports/CHANGES.  This is
> > now the second major ports update I've summarized.  Once the archives
> > get back up to speed, you should be able to see my previous summary.
> > 
> 
> 	A quick comment and question re the ports tree.  
> 	Since the ./distinfo file began listing the "SIZE="
> 	line, my portupgrade scripts (and fetch) have broken
> 	when I upgrade.  I'm running 4.7PRE and 4.8PRE.  (I'm
> 	trying to floppy install 5.2-RELEASE, as well.)
> 
> 	Do I need to get a new version of fetch?  Hand-deleting
> 	the SIZE line in the ./distinfo file is a temp
> 	workaround; is there a better way?  ...I must have 
> 	missed *something*........

The latest bsd.port.mk changes should have fixed this.  The -S argument
is only passed to fetch i OSVERSION >= 480000.  If you're still running
into problems, try adding DISABLE_SIZE=yes to /etc/make.conf.

Joe

> 
> 	gary
> 
> 
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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