Port collection (incorrectly) marked as not supporting 11.1

Alan Somers asomers at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 1 16:25:04 UTC 2018


On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 9:53 AM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On:
>
> FreeBSD lilith 11.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE #0 r321664: Fri Jul 28
> 23:35:18 EDT 2017     root at lilith:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> Attempting to run make on any port produces:
>
> /!\ 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
>
> How is this possibly correct when 11.1 is still listed as a production
> release!?!?!?!?
>
> --
> Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
>

Because FreeBSD 11.1 went EoL yesterday.  You need to upgrade to 11.2.
Here's the announcement.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2018-September/001842.html

You're right, however, that the website isn't up-to-date.  It was updated
in one place but not another.  I'll bug somebody to fix it.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/ (incorrect)
https://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup (correct)

-Alan


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