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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:21:47 +0200
From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Subject: Re: Are ports supposed to build and run on 10-CURRENT?
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On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:07:14 +0200
Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
> wrote:
> > So my question is: Are we port maintainers now really supposed to
> > make ports work with CURRENT?
> 
> This is generally up to the maintainer; however many committers run
> -CURRENT and test on that by default.
> 
> I would add something like
> .if ${OSVERSION} > ${WHEREEVERITBROKE}
> BROKEN= Unit tests fail
> .endif
> to the port's Makefile.
> 

Thanks for your helpful response. I followed your advice and filed a new
version of the patch marking it BROKEN for 10:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=179233#reply4

I will look into making the port work on 10 as soon as we have an
actual release date and the C++ compiler tool chain stabilized, so that
I'm not dealing with a moving target, 

-- 
Michael Gmelin