When did pkg(8) drop support for 12-STABLE?

[Chris]

On 2021-02-23 18:25, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 15:00, Chris <portmaster at bsdforge.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2021-02-23 16:04, Mark Millard wrote:
>> > Chris portmaster at bsdforge.com wrote on
>> > Tue Feb 23 23:31:09 UTC 2021 :
>> >
>> >> On 2021-02-23 14:58, @lbutlr wrote:
>> >> > On 23 Feb 2021, at 13:26, Chris <portmaster at BSDforge.com> wrote:
>> >> >> OK On a virgin 12 stable install.
>> >> >
>> >> > The current release is 12.2-RELEASE. 12.0-RELEASE was EOLed last February. I
>> >> > am
>> >> > not sure what build you mean by "12-STABLE"
>> >> It was from a 12-STABLE usb stick (probably 12.1). Is there no way forward,
>> >> save
>> >> building up to 12.2?
>> >
>> >
>> > You might want to report the output of:
>> >
>> > # uname -apKU
>> >
>> > if you can still run it in the environment in question.
>> Thank you for your thoughtful suggestion, Mark.
>> It returns:
>> FreeBSD fbsd12dev 12.1-STABLE FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE r363918 GENERIC  amd64
>> amd64 1201522 1201522
>> 
>> Is that bad?
> 
Thanks for the reply, Jonathan.
> You're running 12.1, and not -STABLE. The EOL for 12.1 was Nov-2019.
Odd. It _says_ it's the STABLE branch.
> 
> You need to get a later version or run -STABLE (ie: build from source
> off the stable/12 branch).
It _was_ built from the stable/12 branch. All be it a good while ago.
I guess I've somehow lost my understanding of what tracking STABLE really
means. Or maybe it's changed. But I installed from a 12-STABLE medium.
uname(1) reports it's 12-STABLE (12.1-STABLE). But it's _not_ 12-STABLE.
See my confusion? :-)

Thanks again.

--Chris
> 
> Cheers.
> --
> Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>