Updating Information for FreeBSD ports developers
This file is maintained by Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> and
copyrighted by the FreeBSD Foundation.
This file contains major changes to ports and the ports infrastructure.
Intended audience are ports committers, maintainers and other
developers. User oriented changes should be submitted for inclusion
in the release notes.
All ports committers are allowed to commit to this file.
20040129:
SIZE lines in distinfo files: if you set USE_SIZE when you do "make
makesum", the byte sizes of the distfiles will be listed in the
distinfo file. Then, if a distfile is replaced on its master site with
one of a different size than that listed, "make fetch" will fail with a
"size mismatch" error before downloading the file and the user will be
asked to fetch the file by hand. Also, a user will know the size of
the distfiles before fetching and decide to fetch later.
20040129:
Start of CHANGES file.
FORMAT:
This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
breakages or added features in tracking ports. Not all things will be
listed here, and it only starts on January 29, 2004.
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