bsd.port.options.mk status

[Kris Kennaway]

Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> * Pav Lucistnik (pav at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> 
>>>> It's possible to use this feature, but only on -CURRENT and -STABLE
>>>> FreeBSD systems newer than certain date. No existing release supports it
>>>> - it will be supported in upcoming 6.3 and 7.0.
>>> Erm, isn't ports code (more or less) release-independent? What's missing
>>> in existing FreeBSD versions that's needed to support options.mk?
>> The make only looks into /usr/share/mk for includes, until told
>> otherwise. bsd.port.options.mk is included before bsd.port.pre.mk, so it
>> can't be found. Base system was modified to install stub of the same
>> name into /usr/share/mk to workaround this problem.
> Understood. Then we really have to wait till 5.5 and 6.2 EOL to use
> options.mk... That's a bit strange to wait multiple years for an
> useful feature, aren't there any workaround planned?

I have some ideas on how to construct a working time machine, but I just 
need some seed capital :)

Kris