pkg_add thinks that -STABLE is -RELEASE (wrong __FreeBSD_version?)

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, pluknet wrote:

Hi,

> 2010/1/2 Paride Legovini <pl at ninthfloor.org>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running 8.0-STABLE and I noticed that by default pkg_add -r uses
>> packages-8.0-release/Latest/ as PACKAGESITE. I read in the handbook[1]
>> that pkg_add should use packages-5-stable/Latest/ as PACKAGESITE when
>> one is running -STABLE.
>>
>> I took a look at the source code, and noticed that pkg_add considers
>> the system -STABLE if getosreldate() (i.e. __FreeBSD_version) is between
>> 800500 and 899000 (see src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/main.c:92).
>> However, in RELENG_8, __FreeBSD_version is set to 800108. You can check
>> it via cvsweb[2].
>>
>> Sounds like something is wrong. Am I missing something?
>> Do I just have to wait for the __FreeBSD_version to be bumped?
>
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm afraid that's because __FreeBSD_version wasn't bumped
> 800107->800500 in RELENG_8 just after RELENG_8_0 created
> (wrt changes in scheme for RELENG_8 timeframe where
> current/stable border moved to 800500:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2009-June/007830.html
>
> It continued then as is (still ok), and eventually was incremented
> to 800108 (wrong here, though I hope it still can be safely corrected).

I have just bumped the version on stable/8 so it should be fine now.

/bz

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