Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 17:17:40 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> Cc: Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Who was the mental genius Message-ID: <20140606151739.GC73493@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <18E02559D230ED6DF11C040A@localhost> References: <D2EE1900E54F5DC324E503D3@localhost> <5390E62E.6090807@madpilot.net> <6CEF0183772C97582B196466@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <539130B3.9030604@freebsd.org> <8CA324878D330942AB8AE0B3@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <5391611A.3090406@marino.st> <53917957.2020909@freebsd.org> <53917A30.8050504@marino.st> <EA88DBD9-F436-4107-9181-45A5375C6442@freebsd.org> <18E02559D230ED6DF11C040A@localhost>
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--m51xatjYGsM+13rf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 09:34:26AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On June 6, 2014 at 10:51:04 AM +0200 Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org= >=20 > wrote: >=20 > > > > > >> On 06 Jun 2014, at 10:22, John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> wrot= e: > >> > >>> On 6/6/2014 10:18, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >>> Sure, but really a couple of lines to warn people and wave them towar= ds > >>> next steps is probably advisable next time. > >> > >> Maybe we can alter the "uname -a" string to show the EOL so that every > >> time the machine boots you see it on top of the MOTD. > >> > >> :) > >> > >> Of course, that won't help for the turn-on-and-forget servers with > >> uptime measured in years... > >> > >> As a serious questions, where should such a "you have X months/days > >> remaining before server is EOL, update before then" messages pop up? > >> weekly cron messages sent to root? > > > > periodic/security/450-check_eol ?(info if < 90 days left, error if past > > eol) > > >=20 > EOL notification is not the problem. The problem is breaking ports at EO= L.=20 > That's a special circumstance and begs for notification. This isn't rock= et=20 > science. >=20 > For at least two months now this notification has been popping up every= =20 > time I work on ports. >=20 > /!\ WARNING /!\ > pkg_install EOL is scheduled for 2014-09-01. Please consider migrating to= =20 > pkgng > http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2014/02/03/time-to-bid-farewell-to-th= e-old-pkg_-tools/ > If you do not want to see this message again set=20 > NO_WARNING_PKG_INSTALL_EOL=3Dyes in your make.conf >=20 > Do you think I would miss the 9/1 deadline? Not a chance. But the advan= ce=20 > warning gives me time to plan the change when it's convenient for me. >=20 > This change has me scrambling to adapt. Granted, it only took me a few= =20 > minutes to figure out what to do, but not everyone has the background and= =20 > experience to do that. Some will simply panic. Others will switch to=20 > Linux. >=20 > That doesn't seem like a goal FreeBSD should support. The mental genius is me apparently (thanks for the kind words, btw) I'm responsible for both the pkg_install EOL message and for breaking ports tree with older make (btw you can recover with installing manually bmake). Yes it would have been a good idea to give a warning to the user about the = fact that the ports tree won't be support long on after EOL of 8.3, given the po= rts tree will break again quite soon after EOL of 8.4 I should think about addi= ng such a message right now (btw this is not that easy in the case we are talk= ing about because I have no way to differentiate a fmake with support for :tl f= rom a fmake without support for :tu same goes for :tu) hence it is hard to print a message. Concerning breaking after 8.4 EOL it might be easier. The reason why I haven't added a warning like I did for pkg_install is that: 1. it is hard to detect when to print the warning (more complicated that on= e can imagine first) 2. freebsd-update is already issueing a warning about EOL coming soon so I = would have expected user to already know when EOL is coming and/or getting the in= fo =66rom freebsd-update. regards, Bapt --m51xatjYGsM+13rf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlOR25MACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EzLbwCdH3mO7l3lnr3FrqS1L4inXeho RJsAn2mksdq0Vhmenc5draT0AM1XFxOs =38Hb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --m51xatjYGsM+13rf--
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