[SOLVED] How to create a port only for specific FreeBSD releases

Andrew Hotlab andrew.hotlab at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 27 16:08:35 UTC 2017


> From: Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 3:37 PM
> To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
> Subject: How to create a port only for specific FreeBSD releases
    
> Hi to all, I'm trying to make a port which installs only a couple of simple scripts
> (thus NO_BUILD, NO_ARCH, and void MASTER_SITES and DISTFILES...).
> 
> Since these scripts are designed to run on FreeBSD 10.0 and newer, I'd like to
> know if there is a way to prevent the port from installing on older FreeBSD
> releases. In the Porter's Handbook I found this paragraph, but it seems regarding
> only ported app's source  code:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/porting-versions.html


Sorry, just found by myself. I included these lines before the do-install section:

.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
.if ${OSVERSION} < 1000100
IGNORE=         runs only on FreeBSD 10.0 and newer
.endif


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