Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:06:25 +0000 From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> To: Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When was the last ports tree that worked with RELENG_6? Message-ID: <CADLo83-8vOoVPHPsXv5btd%2BcxenRwhzvZXSfvbrUCkWYO0oGsA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <511FABE7.2080100@bluerosetech.com> References: <511FABE7.2080100@bluerosetech.com>
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On 16 February 2013 15:55, Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote: > I have an old 6.4-R machine which I can take as far as RELENG_6, but no > further due to a hardware-support issue (special hardware, third party > driver). The hardware needs to live a while yet, so I'd like to try to get > the installed ports as up to date as possible. The current ports tree > doesn't work on 6.x, so I need to find the last version of the ports tree > that does work. > > The ports tree on the box is *newer* than the one tagged RELEASE_6_EOL, so > it's not that simple. The current tree was pulled 2012-Feb-21 10:38 UTC and > I know it works. It looks like the RELEASE_8_3_0 tree (2012-March-7) also > works based on some very basic testing. > > Does anyone when the ports tree broke for 6.x? Alternately, if someone > knows what it was that (first) broke the tree for 6.x, I can easily hunt > down commits and find a predated tree that works. Was it the optionsNG > stuff? I'm pretty certain that ports on 6.X was broken with OPTIONSng (r297660), but I seem to remember that other compatibility was ripped out before then; perhaps Mark can clarify. r259629 specifically talks about removing 6.3 shims, but that is way before. I think you may have some luck installing an up to date make(1) and dialog(1) (or set NO_DIALOG=yes in make.conf) from stable/9 or similar; many of the problems on 6 are caused by missing variable modifiers. Chris
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