11.0-RC1 unsupported by ports?
Daniel Braniss
danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Wed Jan 25 09:52:24 UTC 2017
> On 25 Jan 2017, at 10:47, Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely7.cicely.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 09:13:18AM +0100, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>>> 11.0-RC1 was superseded by 11.0-REL, so while that message is a bit
>>>> drastic, there's a point to it.
>>>
>>> With that argument only the latest version would be supported.
>>
>> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/ lists the supported releases.
>> There are no release candidates listed.
>>
>>> That said, it is a release candidate and as such one could argue that
>>> there never had been any official support at all.
>>> In that case however the message is wrong, because when a support has
>>> ended it implies that there was support.
>>>
>>> The check in the code is this one:
>>> .if (${OPSYS} == FreeBSD && (${OSVERSION} < 1003000 || (${OSVERSION} >= 1100000 && ${OSVERSION} < 1100122))) || \
>>> (${OPSYS} == DragonFly && ${DFLYVERSION} < 400400)
>>>
>>> It is not about RC as such, it is explicitly about 11.0-RC.
>>> My OSVERSION is 1100121.
>>> So obviously support starts with the first release.
>>> Fair enough, but then the message is still wrong unless it was supported.
>>
>> What's stopping you from upgrading to -REL ?
>
> Buildworld on a raspberry isn't fun - if it works at all.
> Even if you crossbuild and just copy the binaries, the wear of
> MicroSD cards isn't something you want to test unless you really
> have to.
most of the time this works for me:
mount host:/export-to-rpi/local /usr/local
echo ‘WRKDIRPREFIX=/var/tmp’ >> /etc/make.conf
mount via nfs /var/tmp, i.e.
mount host:/export-to-rpi/tmp /var/tmp
also add swap via nfs:
mount host:/export-to-rpi/swap /mnt-swap
swapon /mnt-swap
>
> --
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