pointyhat is building for 5.5 but claiming 8.0

[Boris Samorodov]

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:28:45 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > Boris Samorodov píše v st 09. 01. 2008 v 02:16 +0300:
> >> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:10:45 +0100 Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> No, the port is using sysctl(2) to query the OS version which cannot
> >>>>> be wrapped.
> >>>> Hm, ports-mgmt/tinderbox masks it somehow... And doesn't get
> >>>> an error for this port.
> >>> The FreeBSD version inside the tinderbox is same as the host?
> >> OK, I found the difference. The port builds for all FreeBSD version
> >> except 5.x. The same is for ports-mgmt/tinderbox. Thus I think that
> >> there is something that was not MFS'd to 5-STABLE that causes the
> >> difference.
> >>
> >> For now I'm going to mark the port as IGNORE for OSVERSION < 600000.
> >> A question to portmgr@: Do you have any objections?
> >
> > It would be nice to know what exactly is going on in there.

> Yeah, I can't imagine what it would be, unless it is using uname(1) or
> (3) and 5.x doesn't have the environment variable overrides...but in
> that case hundreds of other things would break.

The port is using "uname -r" at the Makefile:
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OSRELEASE!=        /usr/bin/uname -r
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