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Ports tree locked for 4.7

Contributed by maxime on from the keys-to-locks dept.

Update (Tue Feb 23 20:11:00 CEST 2010): Jasper has unlocked the ports tree for a select group of people for "a bit longer".

On January 12, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@) announced that the ports tree has switched in softlock mode, meaning that users were welcome to test and report bugs. Now, on February 17, he announced on the ports@ mailing-list that the ports tree has been locked for the upcoming OpenBSD 4.7 release.

Please read on for Jasper's message:

From: Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@humppa.nl>
To: ports@openbsd.org
Subject: Ports locked
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:48:23 +0100

The ports tree is now locked for the 4.7 release. Thanks to everyone
who tested.

Cheers,
Jasper

Jasper's update to ports re-opens the tree for specific people : 

so, an unexpected opportunity arose that will allow us to work on ports
yet a  little bit longer. this mean that we can get caught up, without          
introducing any risks. 

people who're allowed to commit, have been informed.
IF I DID NOT MAIL YOU, DO NOT COMMIT!

  cheers,
  jasper

A few updates have already gone in, mostly for mips64el fixes.

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Comments

  1. By Denis (Denis) openbsd@ledeuns.net on

    I guess the time was too short to put DNSSEC improvements of Bind9.7 into OpenBSD 4.7.

    Comments

    1. By Renaud Allard (renaud) on

      > I guess the time was too short to put DNSSEC improvements of Bind9.7 into OpenBSD 4.7.

      Bind is in base, not in the ports system

      Comments

      1. By Marc Espie (espie) espie@openbsd.org on

        > > I guess the time was too short to put DNSSEC improvements of Bind9.7 into OpenBSD 4.7.
        >
        > Bind is in base, not in the ports system

        Yeah, well, when did not knowing anything about OpenBSD prevented that crowd from uttering moronic comments ?

        Seriously though, there are some changes OpenBSD is goign to move away from bind anyways, as it's getting tiresome to band-aid such a piece of junk...

        Comments

        1. By Renaud Allard (renaud) on

          > Seriously though, there are some changes OpenBSD is goign to move away from bind anyways, as it's getting tiresome to band-aid such a piece of junk...
          >

          That's very good news. What is going to be the replacement? An existing implementation or a new in house development?

          Comments

          1. By Brad (brad) on

            > That's very good news. What is going to be the replacement? An existing implementation or a new in house development?

            nsd / Unbound.

            Comments

            1. By Anonymous Coward (anon) on

              > > That's very good news. What is going to be the replacement? An existing implementation or a new in house development?
              >
              > nsd / Unbound.

              The resolver needs work too.

              Comments

              1. By Brad (brad) on

                > > > That's very good news. What is going to be the replacement? An existing implementation or a new in house development?
                > >
                > > nsd / Unbound.
                >
                > The resolver needs work too.

                Very much so.

      2. By Denis (Denis) on

        > Bind is in base, not in the ports system

        Damnit, you are right ! I guess I wasn't fully awake when reading the Journal :p

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