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From: Kurt Jaeger <pi@opsec.eu>
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Subject: Re: 11.0-RC1 unsupported by ports?
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Hi!

> > 11.0-RC1 was superseded by 11.0-REL, so while that message is a bit
> > drastic, there's a point to it.
> 
> With that argument only the latest version would be supported.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/ lists the supported releases.
There are no release candidates listed.

> That said, it is a release candidate and as such one could argue that
> there never had been any official support at all.
> In that case however the message is wrong, because when a support has
> ended it implies that there was support.
> 
> The check in the code is this one:
> .if (${OPSYS} == FreeBSD && (${OSVERSION} < 1003000 || (${OSVERSION} >= 1100000 && ${OSVERSION} < 1100122))) || \
>     (${OPSYS} == DragonFly && ${DFLYVERSION} < 400400)
> 
> It is not about RC as such, it is explicitly about 11.0-RC.
> My OSVERSION is 1100121.
> So obviously support starts with the first release.
> Fair enough, but then the message is still wrong unless it was supported.

What's stopping you from upgrading to -REL ?

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