When did pkg(8) drop support for 12-stable?

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 4:51 PM Chris <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:

> Given this is a pkg(8) error, I brought it up on ports@
> but it was suggested I (also?) bring it up here on stable@
>
> OK awhile back I installed a copy of 12 stable from the
> usb stick image. I tweaked it to my wishes then got called
> away and haven't been able to get back to it until the other
> day. This is still a fresh install which has a populated /usr/src.
> So I
> svnlite co svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports
> followed by a
> cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg/ && make install clean
> which returns
> make
> /!\ 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
> ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_SYSTEM.
>
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> Err what? Ok while I think this was from stable 12.1, it's still still 12,
> and it's on stable. So what gives?
>

12.1 has reached EOL now that 12.2 has been out a while.

Warner

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment.
>
> --Chris
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