emulators/linux_base-c7 ports

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:02:01 +0400 Gleb Popov <arrowd at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> It turned out that CentOS changed location where RPM's are hosted:
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.4.1708/readme
> 
> I tried changing
> 
> --- Mk/Uses/linux.mk    (revision 496462)
> +++ Mk/Uses/linux.mk    (working copy)
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
>  IGNORE=                        Linux CentOS ${LINUX_DIST_VER} is
> unsupported on ${ARCH}
>  .endif
>  .elif ${linux_ARGS} == c7
> -LINUX_DIST_VER?=       7.4.1708
> +LINUX_DIST_VER?=       7
> 
> and it seem to mostly work, but many linux-c7 ports require a version bump
> now. I can prepare a patch for that, but wanted to make sure I'm on a right
> track first.

No, "7" always points to latest release which means the content changes
on a new release, invalidating our ports.  We want to use the full
version.  Is there a problem with fetching the packages?  It looks like
7.4 has been archived to vault.centos.org, which is included in
MASTER_SITES so the packages should still fetch.  The c7 ports need to be
updated to 7.6.  There's a PR about here:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229431