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On 4/26/06, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:
> And I do have an idea to protect the innocent from installing 6.1
> packages on 6.0-RELEASE:
>
> 1. Add a PRE-INSTALL mode pkg-install script
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/pkg-in=
stall.html>
> to all packages built for freebsd >=3D 600101 and < 700000 or >=3D 700007=
.
>
> 2. behavior: If the package is about to be installed on a
>   freebsd < 600101 or >=3D 700000 and < 700007, the pre-install script
>   complains, asks the user to use the port instead and exits, aborting
>   the install with an error. As portsnap and portmaster are deployed,
>   that's something that shouldn't be too difficult to explain.
>
> This could all be handled inside ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk.
>
The only problem I see is if a port already has a pkg-install script.
How do you append the warning to it?

Scot
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