From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 16 16:06:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A42EF8; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:06:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22a.google.com (mail-ie0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22a]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D3C10F; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f170.google.com with SMTP id c11so5983880ieb.15 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:06:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=YEoqAvGp7aI4cw0Z2M1yhw+qX7tDGmE6mMAz/fmWlRc=; b=ax0gBw/kHTq8rt5I7tKJOTSwAUk/LXTIYsR0lV08rbTIh6JY95E6iQtLucKxMtac0B +ZcW8mWTuwLiaEPD99MOin70k6sayFIIruMP1bSEGtwVmsZjGzzzVhV4TYspxTAjXFj2 rTyzM3rUZYjDwzprf7g4UJYTOXmx4/W/xkZkSEGnsJpJ+qHhYpWHhY9BNlnvAtBwasgA S541XEZvRYHCSVFn7etIk+PqyHD2TULDMFZe9S6HDyguC9IHL9Mh93hFIimU+CCAhv4u eioPj17RWPeUU+sZQoRXAIuxfzytJPjUd9eIRiE49HjsvaB6iuF9aQOwhxj6AP+NOQmk nw+Q== X-Received: by 10.50.202.97 with SMTP id kh1mr4991508igc.15.1361030815292; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:06:55 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.63.12 with HTTP; Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:06:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <511FABE7.2080100@bluerosetech.com> References: <511FABE7.2080100@bluerosetech.com> From: Chris Rees Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:06:25 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9C9dykdsYpmasJIHDsOnwdpxZJU Message-ID: Subject: Re: When was the last ports tree that worked with RELENG_6? To: Darren Pilgrim , Mark Linimon , Baptiste Daroussin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:06:56 -0000 On 16 February 2013 15:55, Darren Pilgrim 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