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

[Mark Millard]

(Warner is only CC'd here.)

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com wrote on
Wed Feb 24 01:04:13 UTC 2021 :

> 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 syst
> em. 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.

From release/12.1.0/ :

"Tag releng/12.1 at r354233 as release/12.1.0 (12.1-RELEASE)"

I think that implicit in Warner's response is that
versions of stable/12/ that are not after r354233 are
also EOL. One needs to have stable/12/ material from
after -r354233 in order for it to be supported.

He might even mean that stable/12/ material from before:

"Tag releng/12.2 at r366954 as release/12.2.0 (12.2-RELEASE)"

would also be considered as not supported.

To be safe you should be using stable/12/ material from
on or after -r366954 in order to have a supported
context.

(I'm not sure if anything is explicit about the status
of stable/12/ material between releng/12.1 at r354233
and releng/12.2 at r366954 .)

Since you did not provide the output from the
likes of "uname -apKU" (or some rough equivalent)
I've no direct clue which version you were trying.
But you should be able to compare to the above to
see which range the material is from.

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