HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT

[Garrett Cooper]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Beech Rintoul <beech at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 September 2011 12:18:47 Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 09/28/2011 12:39, Hartmann, O. wrote:
>> > The mess started to happen when I tried to "repair" a non CLANG
>> > compiling port math/gotoblas with portmaster -vf amth/gotoblas.
>> > Since this build binutils and even gettext and libiconv, I guess they
>> > got broken. Last I saw was a successful installation report from
>> > portmaster. But the libiconv.so.3 wasn't there anymore when I checked!
>> >
>> > This is a catastrophy ...
>> >
>> > I'm on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT r225844
>>
>> It's been widely reported on the ports list that you can't do fresh
>> ports compiles on 10-current, and won't be able to until well after
>> 9.0-RELEASE. The primary reason is that auto* stuff doesn't understand
>> the 2-digit release version.
>>
>> Solutions are to set UNAME_r=9.0-CURRENT in your environment, and/or
>> twiddle the version in newvers.sh and rebuild/reinstall your kernel.
>>
>>
>> hth,
>>
>> Doug
>
> So if I change /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh to something like vers 9.9 I'm not
> going to shoot myself in the foot if I try and update? I would really like to
> avoid downgrading this box.I've altready been bitten once today and had to
> build packages on my tindy and force install.

Today no, but when someone in changes something in base or ports that
checks for __FreeBSD_version, yes.
HTH,
-Garrett