pkg fails to compile

[Sin]

Brad,

I use BSD 10, and pkg works great with it.   I still have a couple of 
applications that don't work with 9.x or 10.x, so this box remains.

Second to that, the documention I checked still implies pkg should be 
useable on BSD 8 and even 7

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pkgng-intro.html

https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng/CharterAndRoadMap#Road_Map


But aside from that, I can't even use /usr/ports on the latest portsnap 
fetch because of pkgng not being up to date ?  That alone, I don't 
understand.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Davis" <brd at FreeBSD.org>
To: "Sin" <sinister at gmail.com>
Cc: <freebsd-pkg at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: pkg fails to compile


> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:11:58AM -0400, Sin wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> I've got FreeBSD 8 stable ( R299674 ) and portsnap fetch applied as new 
>> as a few minutes ago.  I'm not able to get /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg to 
>> compile.  Just errors with:
>
> This is fixed in the next release.
>
> You know FreeBSD 8 has been End oF Lifed right?  You should really
> upgrade to FreeBSD 10.  Why are you still using 8?
>
>
> Regards,
> Brad Davis
>
>