11.0-RC1 unsupported by ports?

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 25/01/2017 à 08:55, Bernd Walter a écrit :
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 07:20:45AM +0100, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>> [61]cnc# make install
>>> /!\ ERROR: /!\
>>>
>>> Ports Collection support for your FreeBSD version has ended, and no ports are
>>> guaranteed to build on this system. Please upgrade to a supported release.
>>>
>>> No support will be provided if you silence this message by defining
>>> ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_SYSTEM.
>> 11.0-RC1 was superseded by 11.0-REL, so while that message is a bit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.
> 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.

The alpha/beta/rc versions preceding a release are never supported after
the next alpha/beta/rc is released (meaning beta3 stops being supported
when rc1 goes out, and the last rc stops being supported when the
release goes out.)

Like the message says, you can define ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_SYSTEM to
continue using the non supported version you are running.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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