it's pretty much like to gcc.
I've no idea why does FreeBSD decided to check its version (and nobody
knows).

I'll update commit message

ср, 26 февр. 2020 г. в 05:37, Tim Düsterhus <[email protected]>:

> Ilya,
>
> Am 25.02.20 um 21:13 schrieb Илья Шипицин:
> > it turned out that FreeBSD image is slightly different from packages.
> > since we cannot change image, let us just suppress that warning.
>
> I'd like to point out this paragraph from the CONTRIBUTING document:
>
> >    As a rule of thumb, your patch MUST NEVER be made only of a subject
> line,
> >    it *must* contain a description. Even one or two lines, or indicating
> >    whether a backport is desired or not. It turns out that single-line
> commits
> >    are so rare in the Git world that they require special manual (hence
> >    painful) handling when they are backported, and at least for this
> reason
> >    it's important to keep this in mind.
>
> When reading your patch it was unclear to me which kind of version check
> needs to be ignored (and why). At the very least I would have expected a
> copy the actual error message from CI (that will be fixed after applying
> the patch) in the commit message. I'll copy it here for posterity.
>
> > Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> > Fetching meta.conf: . done
> > Fetching packagesite.txz: .......... done
> > Processing entries:
> > Newer FreeBSD version for package p5-Bio-GFF3:
> > To ignore this error set IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes
> > - package: 1300081
> > - running kernel: 1300078
> > Ignore the mismatch and continue? [Y/n]: pkg: repository FreeBSD
> contains packages for wrong OS version: FreeBSD:13:amd64
> > Processing entries... done
> > Unable to update repository FreeBSD
> > Error updating repositories!
>
> I'm not a FreeBSD guy, but my understanding after a short session with
> the search engine of my choice indicated that apparently the Cirrus CI
> VM is running an outdated kernel or possibly an outdated FreeBSD jail.
> I'm not sure whether that is correct or not. In any case an explanation
> why suddenly this error message popped up and why it's safe to ignore
> that specific error is safe would have been helpful in the commit
> message as well.
>
> Best regards
> Tim Düsterhus
>

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