On 03/07/13 11:08, Jan Beich wrote: > Thomas Abthorpe <[email protected]> writes: > >> - We do not require committers/maintainers to support 7.x, although ports >> will need to be marked as BROKEN/IGNORE if they do not build/run. > > Why not add an entry to UPDATING and teach portsnap(8) about EOLTIME? > > # a sample text based on freebsd-update(8) > if [ ${EOLTIME} -lt ${NOWTIME} ]; then > echo > cat <<-EOF > WARNING: `uname -sr` HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE. > Any ports issues discovered after `date -r ${EOLTIME}` > specific to your version may not be corrected. > EOF > return 1 > fi > > For one, not reading UPDATING pretty much guarantees running into an > issue at some point anyway compared to not reading ports-announce@ list.
Adding a similar warning to bsd.port.mk was propopsed on the freebsd-emulation list, at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2013-March/010463.html Rene _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
