12.0-RELEASE-p7 doesn't contain std::filesystem that has been added to 12.0-STABLE some time later

[Yuri]

On 2019-07-08 23:54, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 03:48:25PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
>> Maybe the patch level should be updated, because any port using
>> std::filesystem fails in the current poudriere 12.0-RELEASE-p7 VM.
> 12.0-RELEASE-p* is a different branch than 12.0-STABLE.  releng/12.0 vs
> stable/12.  Only security fixes and critical fixes get applied to the
> releng branches.
> When releng/12.0 was branched, OSVERSION of the branch was 1200086, and
> it has not changed on that branch.  Just after releng/12.0 was branched,
> the stable/12 branch OSVERSION was bumped to 1200500, to show it is
> ahead.  Details are available here (some OSVERSION bumps may be missing):
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/versions-12.html
>

Thanks for this information.

This means that ports using std::filesystem can never be built in 
poudriere on 12 because std::filesystem is not a security feature and it 
will not be included in the patches.


Yuri