[HEADS UP] FreeBSD Ports tree has been tagged with RELEASE_7_EOL

[René Ladan]

On 03/07/13 11:08, Jan Beich wrote:
> Thomas Abthorpe <portmgr-secretary at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
>> - We do not require committers/maintainers to support 7.x, although ports
>> will need to be marked as BROKEN/IGNORE if they do not build/run.
> 
> Why not add an entry to UPDATING and teach portsnap(8) about EOLTIME?
> 
>         # a sample text based on freebsd-update(8)
>         if [ ${EOLTIME} -lt ${NOWTIME} ]; then
>                 echo
>                 cat <<-EOF
>                 WARNING: `uname -sr` HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE.
>                 Any ports issues discovered after `date -r ${EOLTIME}`
>                 specific to your version may not be corrected.
>                 EOF
>                 return 1
>         fi
> 
> For one, not reading UPDATING pretty much guarantees running into an
> issue at some point anyway compared to not reading ports-announce@ list.

Adding a similar warning to bsd.port.mk was propopsed on the
freebsd-emulation list, at
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2013-March/010463.html

Rene