On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 11:51:33PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 17:08:00 -0500 > Eitan Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 9 March 2013 16:13, René Ladan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I strongly attend to agree with Boris here. If we want to continue > > > warning 7.X users for a while (1,6,12 months?) then it should both > > > be much clearer and easier to just put a conditional IGNORE in > > > bsd.port.mk than in thousands of individual (not only Linux) ports. > > > > +1. The place to protect against user error is not in the Linux > > specific portion of the tree. > > As I understand the EoL announcement the bsd.port.mk message would be > "it may or may not work" and the port-build should not bail out. If my > understanding is wrong, it would be nice if portmgr (CCed) could > clarify this.
Not guaranteed to work is the implication. Contributors/committers are no longer obligated to make things work for 7.X. > > The linux message is clearly "this will not work anymore" and the > port-building should stop. As such the linux part should behave like > IGNORE (BROKEN = build from time to time on the port build cluster in > case it compiles again; IGNORE = do not even give it a try). > > Bye, > Alexander. > > -- > http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 > http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer [email protected] | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe
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