[SOLVED] How to create a port only for specific FreeBSD releases

Ernie Luzar luzar722 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 16:35:01 UTC 2017


Andrew Hotlab wrote:
>> From: Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab at hotmail.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 3:37 PM
>> To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
>> Subject: How to create a port only for specific FreeBSD releases
>     
>> Hi to all, I'm trying to make a port which installs only a couple of simple scripts
>> (thus NO_BUILD, NO_ARCH, and void MASTER_SITES and DISTFILES...).
>>
>> Since these scripts are designed to run on FreeBSD 10.0 and newer, I'd like to
>> know if there is a way to prevent the port from installing on older FreeBSD
>> releases. In the Porter's Handbook I found this paragraph, but it seems regarding
>> only ported app's source  code:
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/porting-versions.html
> 
> 
> Sorry, just found by myself. I included these lines before the do-install section:
> 
> .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
> .if ${OSVERSION} < 1000100
> IGNORE=         runs only on FreeBSD 10.0 and newer
> .endif


IGNORE_FreeBSD_9=     This version only for FreeBSD 10+


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