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[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:27:34PM -0400, Ryan Steinmetz wrote:
> 
> On (07/07/14 18:19), Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:13:18PM -0400, Ryan Steinmetz wrote:
> >>
> >> 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").
> >
> >Except that is that case it is impossible to catch it reliably, some impossible
> >to warn about it.
> 
> We don't need to catch anything.  We simply need:
> 
> .if (${OSVERSION} >= 902510 && ${OSVERSION} < 1000000) || ${OSVERSION} >= 1000704
> ${ECHO} "You are using an unsupported release.  The ports tree may not
> function correctly.  Please update to a supported release for the best
> experience.  See http://.....freebsd.org/... for a list of supported
> releases.
> .endif
> 
> Obviously the versions are not correct, but, again, the goal is to give
> people something to work with.  Just like what we did with the PKGNG
> warnings.
> 
> -r
> 
that won t work because you will have a syntax error before being able to print
that

Bapt
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