When will 7.1 be merged into the ports tree

Niclas Zeising niclas.zeising at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 00:17:07 PST 2006


Scott Robbins wrote:
> Ok, now that it's worked for me, I'm getting impatient.  :)
> 
> Seriously, is there any kind of time frame or road map?  I haven't seen
> any sort of time frame mentioned in quite awhile.
> 
> 
> Once again, I'd like to compliment the folks putting this together--I
> was really surprised at how smoothly the upgrade went.  The only rough
> spot, for me, is the fact that various port tools, such as portsnap,
> don't work with the git ports tree. 
> 
> 
> (Which is another selfish reason that I want it merged quickly).  :)
> 
> Looking at this email, I probably sound like the little child, saying,
> "Are we there yet?"  
> 
> Ah well, as is said, immaturity is a lifetime decision.
> 

If you have a hard time getting portupgrade, portsnap etc. to work, try 
doing a make index with the git repo, so you get a decent INDEX-file. 
That did the trick for me when portupgrade didn't want to play.
Regards!
//Niclas



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