Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 12:13:18 -0400 From: Ryan Steinmetz <zi@FreeBSD.org> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Barrie Archer <enquiry@myarcher.net>, perl@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: p5-Git-Repository Message-ID: <20140707161318.GB74596@exodus.zi0r.com> In-Reply-To: <D6280EB537813A51DA64B820@ogg.in.absolight.net> References: <53BA9AD8.7030906@myarcher.net> <20140707134409.GA12289@exodus.zi0r.com> <D6280EB537813A51DA64B820@ogg.in.absolight.net>
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On (07/07/14 17:55), Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>+--On 7 juillet 2014 09:44:09 -0400 Ryan Steinmetz <zi@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>| We should either add workarounds for older systems or a warning
>| that will be printed if a user is running a FreeBSD release that lacks
>| required functionality for the ports tree to function.
>
>Well, the ports tree is only guaranteed to work with supported FreeBSD
>releases. So, if you're not running a supported release, you're on your own.
>
>We can't add bits and pieces of version checks around everything that won't
>work with older releases.
We know what the supported releases are and we can easily add a check
to the framework to verify that you are running a supported release and
print a message if not. This would be identical to what was done with
the PKGNG checks/warnings.
The goal is to give the user a useful message ("You are using an
unsupported version, please upgrade.") versus the errors that Barrie ran
into ("Unknown modifier 't'" or "make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue").
-r
>
>--
>Mathieu Arnold
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