"Defrosting" FreeBSD Ports

As planned, after freezing the ports before the release of FreeBSD 7.3, the ports (and there are more than a few thousand of them, and their dependencies) moved very much. In the mailing list, portmgr @ is suggested to refrain from updating until all mainteners update new versions to the current state and test them for the absence of bugs.



Official message in the newsletter:



Originally Posted by Ion-Mihai Tetcu

Hi,



As announced before, a few big commits, that touch some thousands ports

are being done: png, curl, x11, gnome, kde4. The target ETA is 6-7

April.



The first one was done, update of graphics/png (including a shared lib

version bump), with about 5000 ports affected.



We do _NOT_ recommend updating ports until this commits are all done,

and the problems are fixed, except if you want to help testing / fixing.



Before reporting failures, please take a look at ports@ list, and

qat.tecnik93.com/index.php?action=failed_buildports&sort=last_built

to find out if the problem hasn't already been reported or even fixed.

We also have two incremental builds on Pointy to catch the problems.



Thank you,



With hat: portmgr@