Ports FreeBSD-7-EoL message (was: Re: [cfr] patch to clean up old Linux ports)

[Thomas Abthorpe]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 11:51:33PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 17:08:00 -0500
> Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 9 March 2013 16:13, René Ladan <rene at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > > I strongly attend to agree with Boris here. If we want to continue
> > > warning 7.X users for a while (1,6,12 months?) then it should both
> > > be much clearer and easier to just put a conditional IGNORE in
> > > bsd.port.mk than in thousands of individual (not only Linux) ports.
> > 
> > +1.  The place to protect against user error is not in the Linux
> > specific portion of the tree.
> 
> As I understand the EoL announcement the bsd.port.mk message would be
> "it may or may not work" and the port-build should not bail out. If my
> understanding is wrong, it would be nice if portmgr (CCed) could
> clarify this.

Not guaranteed to work is the implication.  Contributors/committers are
no longer obligated to make things work for 7.X.

> 
> The linux message is clearly "this will not work anymore" and the
> port-building should stop. As such the linux part should behave like
> IGNORE (BROKEN = build from time to time on the port build cluster in
> case it compiles again; IGNORE = do not even give it a try).
> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 
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