postmaster | 6 Jun 2012 20:54
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Manuel Kuklinski dixit:

>please unsubscribe me from the discussion/cvs list.

Normally you’d ask the list owner or postmaster.

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Benny Siegert | 17 Jun 2012 12:09
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Fwd: pkgsrc freeze in preparation for pkgsrc-2012Q2 branch

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@...>
Date: Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 2:24 AM
Subject: pkgsrc freeze in preparation for pkgsrc-2012Q2 branch
To: netbsd-developers@..., packages@...

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Hi folks,

We have "frozen" the pkgsrc repository in preparation for the
pkgsrc-2012Q2 branch.  What this means is that no new pkgsrc entries
will be added, and no changes will be made to the infrastructure
(except for one, see below).

The freeze is expected to last no longer than 2 weeks.  At the end of
that, we will have a brand, new, shiny pkgsrc branch, with updated
packages for everyone to use and enjoy.  Pkgsrc has a branch every 3
months, and this is our way of staying current with newer versions of
packages.

We have still to fix up the functionality relating to shared
libraries, and a diff will be sent to the mailing lists for review and
comment before it is committed to the tree.

Some background - in the past, we have found that quiescing the whole
tree in this way, and branching at the end of a short period, means
that our attention is absolutely focussed on what will become the
branch, and that people are motivated to help out with fixing broken
packages (where a broken package is defined as one that does not
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Benny Siegert | 30 Jun 2012 17:59
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Re: CVS: herc.mirbsd.org: src


Am 29 juin 2012 um 21:20 schrieb Thorsten Glaser <tg@...>:

> Commit ID:    1004FEE1C055389E445
> CVSROOT:    /cvs
> Module name:    src
> Changes by:    tg@...    2012/06/29 21:20:01 UTC
> 
> Modified files:
>    gnu/usr.bin/perl: perltoc2.gen
> 
> Log message:
> let links really be hyperlinks in HTML form
> 
> XXX is there a pod2mdoc(1) ?

There is Pod::Man, which creates -man. mdoc seems more difficult to me because POD is a physical
formatting, while mdoc is "logical". For example, POD has no notion of filenames, flags, etc.

--Benny.

Gmane