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 VM is running an outdated kernel or possibly an outdated FreeBSD jail.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 >

