From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 7 11:55:06 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 1554094 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 11:55:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ea0-x229.google.com (mail-ea0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4013:c01::229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39AE38D for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 11:55:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f169.google.com with SMTP id d13so1469070eaa.14 for ; Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:55:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+JYalRF3Sy09KKtkfWtdhZkWMr2bxzM+wl27BtdxMMA=; b=dFYKoMJzTXq9TqLx115gCVIpGGkezQhgCcXZMLgGOiD2q9PbHQfOEun8SCtRzMQ7mi AbRoouM1qMjKvy0+GAW2n5FHfBWiVU/8bNYALaHQ8F5uv8gVXtKeLQ+dnM3/tXAFC6KN iBQiPCh6w7+taif00nZUxcB8LWR51mzjIHdt0RMAJIDeK9i7jLVpiIVIULBvyK6A3KGk 3bBNhm/D4eDVMjyWZLtsFeGC88Q6EZhwCpCbHMEuc68GjNC6FXkFcOgRh1tt6vIPUPr7 6DGYuxsgTRqN+Do63fltilisbH8Ol7vWpYhkjK437NtLT9KnwGp9+Dx/b8MZa2eKCtmd o0yA== X-Received: by 10.14.220.135 with SMTP id o7mr93344412eep.3.1362657304801; Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:55:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.178.20] (a82-161-212-209.adsl.xs4all.nl. [82.161.212.209]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k7sm1827706een.8.2013.03.07.03.55.02 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:55:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <51388012.8000309@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:54:58 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130228 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] FreeBSD Ports tree has been tagged with RELEASE_7_EOL References: <20130306171916.GA34145@freefall.freebsd.org> <1UDYrv-0003UL-Ko@internal.tormail.org> In-Reply-To: <1UDYrv-0003UL-Ko@internal.tormail.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:55:06 -0000 On 03/07/13 11:08, Jan Beich wrote: > Thomas Abthorpe writes: > >> - We do not require committers/maintainers to support 7.x, although ports >> will need to be marked as BROKEN/IGNORE if they do not build/run. > > Why not add an entry to UPDATING and teach portsnap(8) about EOLTIME? > > # a sample text based on freebsd-update(8) > if [ ${EOLTIME} -lt ${NOWTIME} ]; then > echo > cat <<-EOF > WARNING: `uname -sr` HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE. > Any ports issues discovered after `date -r ${EOLTIME}` > specific to your version may not be corrected. > EOF > return 1 > fi > > For one, not reading UPDATING pretty much guarantees running into an > issue at some point anyway compared to not reading ports-announce@ list. Adding a similar warning to bsd.port.mk was propopsed on the freebsd-emulation list, at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2013-March/010463.html Rene