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Date:      Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:17:11 +0000
From:      Paride Legovini <pl@ninthfloor.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   pkg_add thinks that -STABLE is -RELEASE (wrong __FreeBSD_version?)
Message-ID:  <20100102181711.GB11034@ninthfloor.org>

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Hi,

I'm running 8.0-STABLE and I noticed that by default pkg_add -r uses
packages-8.0-release/Latest/ as PACKAGESITE. I read in the handbook[1]
that pkg_add should use packages-5-stable/Latest/ as PACKAGESITE when
one is running -STABLE.

I took a look at the source code, and noticed that pkg_add considers
the system -STABLE if getosreldate() (i.e. __FreeBSD_version) is between
800500 and 899000 (see src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/main.c:92).
However, in RELENG_8, __FreeBSD_version is set to 800108. You can check
it via cvsweb[2].

Sounds like something is wrong. Am I missing something?
Do I just have to wait for the __FreeBSD_version to be bumped?

Regards,
Paride

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/packages-using.html
[2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/sys/param.h?only_with_tag=RELENG_8




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