From owner-freebsd-ports Thu May 30 16:01:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA11872 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 16:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA11854; Thu, 30 May 1996 16:01:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id CAA07412; Fri, 31 May 1996 02:04:30 +0300 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 02:04:28 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Michael Smith cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , asami@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Request for feedback: REQUIRES_OS_VERSION feature. In-Reply-To: <199605300255.MAA11229@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 May 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > > If this variable is set in a Makefile, the output of `uname -r' will > > be compared against it and, if no match occurs, refuse to build > > the port. For example, the top port could have: > > > > REQUIRES_OS_VERSION= 2.2 > > > > For all variants and 2.1 users could make from the -current tree with > > impugnity, any ports like top simply getting skipped. > > Hmm. Impugnity is an interesting concept 8) > > Anyway, this leaves people following -stable out in the cold. The 2.1R > version of 'top' (for example), doesn't work with -stable, and you've just > death-warranted the -current version. Time for the -stable branch of ports and packages? So it would no more be a requirement to make a link from so.2.2 to so.3.0... on stable to run new ports. (Yes, I do understand the negative side of the thing). > > (The basic idea you've proposed is good though) > Agreed. > > Jordan > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > Sander