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[Ryan Steinmetz]

On (07/07/14 17:55), Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>+--On 7 juillet 2014 09:44:09 -0400 Ryan Steinmetz <zi at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>| We should either add workarounds for older systems or a warning
>| that will be printed if a user is running a FreeBSD release that lacks
>| required functionality for the ports tree to function.
>
>Well, the ports tree is only guaranteed to work with supported FreeBSD
>releases. So, if you're not running a supported release, you're on your own.
>
>We can't add bits and pieces of version checks around everything that won't
>work with older releases.

We know what the supported releases are and we can easily add a check
to the framework to verify that you are running a supported release and
print a message if not.  This would be identical to what was done with
the PKGNG checks/warnings.

The goal is to give the user a useful message ("You are using an
unsupported version, please upgrade.") versus the errors that Barrie ran
into ("Unknown modifier 't'" or "make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue").

-r


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>Mathieu Arnold

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Ryan Steinmetz
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