On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 07:26:39PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> I'm working on a revision to a port where the current version doesn't
> work on 8.0-R; however, an older version does. Rather than roll the
> entire port back to an older version, I'd like to have the newer version
> available to 7.x and older and the older version available to 8.x and
> newer. Is it appropriate to install different versions of a port based
> on ${OSVERSION}? If so, do I just set the necessary variables after
> including bsd.port.pre.mk?
This seems like a bad idea to me. How much effort would it take to fix
the port on 8.x and newer? The other option is to mark it broken on 8.x
and newer.
-- WXS
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