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Date:      Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:30:03 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [SOLVED] How to create a port only for specific FreeBSD releases
Message-ID:  <605504AE-19B6-4269-A8A0-7BECEDE9975C@adamw.org>
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> On 27 Feb, 2017, at 9:07, Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
>> From: Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 3:37 PM
>> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
>> Subject: How to create a port only for specific FreeBSD releases
>    =20
>> Hi to all, I'm trying to make a port which installs only a couple of =
simple scripts
>> (thus NO_BUILD, NO_ARCH, and void MASTER_SITES and DISTFILES...).
>>=20
>> Since these scripts are designed to run on FreeBSD 10.0 and newer, =
I'd like to
>> know if there is a way to prevent the port from installing on older =
FreeBSD
>> releases. In the Porter's Handbook I found this paragraph, but it =
seems regarding
>> only ported app's source  code:
>> =
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/porting-versions.htm=
l
>=20
>=20
> Sorry, just found by myself. I included these lines before the =
do-install section:
>=20
> .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
> .if ${OSVERSION} < 1000100
> IGNORE=3D         runs only on FreeBSD 10.0 and newer
> .endif

It's really not needed at all. Nothing below 10.3 is supported, and the =
ports system will complain already. Please don't include that block in =
your port.

# Adam


--=20
Adam Weinberger
adamw@adamw.org
https://www.adamw.org




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