11.0-RC1 unsupported by ports?

[Daniel Braniss]

> On 25 Jan 2017, at 10:47, Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely7.cicely.de> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 09:13:18AM +0100, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>>>> 11.0-RC1 was superseded by 11.0-REL, so while that message is a bit
>>>> drastic, there's a point to it.
>>> 
>>> With that argument only the latest version would be supported.
>> 
>> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/ lists the supported releases.
>> There are no release candidates listed.
>> 
>>> That said, it is a release candidate and as such one could argue that
>>> there never had been any official support at all.
>>> In that case however the message is wrong, because when a support has
>>> ended it implies that there was support.
>>> 
>>> The check in the code is this one:
>>> .if (${OPSYS} == FreeBSD && (${OSVERSION} < 1003000 || (${OSVERSION} >= 1100000 && ${OSVERSION} < 1100122))) || \
>>>    (${OPSYS} == DragonFly && ${DFLYVERSION} < 400400)
>>> 
>>> It is not about RC as such, it is explicitly about 11.0-RC.
>>> My OSVERSION is 1100121.
>>> So obviously support starts with the first release.
>>> Fair enough, but then the message is still wrong unless it was supported.
>> 
>> What's stopping you from upgrading to -REL ?
> 
> Buildworld on a raspberry isn't fun - if it works at all.
> Even if you crossbuild and just copy the binaries, the wear of
> MicroSD cards isn't something you want to test unless you really
> have to.

most of the time this works for me:
	mount host:/export-to-rpi/local /usr/local
	echo ‘WRKDIRPREFIX=/var/tmp’ >> /etc/make.conf
	mount via nfs /var/tmp, i.e.
		mount host:/export-to-rpi/tmp  /var/tmp
	also add swap via nfs:
		mount host:/export-to-rpi/swap /mnt-swap
		swapon /mnt-swap




> 
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