Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:28:45 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: pav@FreeBSD.org Cc: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pointyhat is building for 5.5 but claiming 8.0 Message-ID: <4784072D.9040003@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1199834453.74596.157.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> References: <61565506@bb.ipt.ru> <4783E1C6.50001@FreeBSD.org> <95483459@bb.ipt.ru> <1199830245.74596.155.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <63313519@bb.ipt.ru> <1199834453.74596.157.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
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Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Boris Samorodov píše v st 09. 01. 2008 v 02:16 +0300: >> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:10:45 +0100 Pav Lucistnik wrote: >> >>>>> No, the port is using sysctl(2) to query the OS version which cannot >>>>> be wrapped. >>>> Hm, ports-mgmt/tinderbox masks it somehow... And doesn't get >>>> an error for this port. >>> The FreeBSD version inside the tinderbox is same as the host? >> OK, I found the difference. The port builds for all FreeBSD version >> except 5.x. The same is for ports-mgmt/tinderbox. Thus I think that >> there is something that was not MFS'd to 5-STABLE that causes the >> difference. >> >> For now I'm going to mark the port as IGNORE for OSVERSION < 600000. >> A question to portmgr@: Do you have any objections? > > It would be nice to know what exactly is going on in there. Yeah, I can't imagine what it would be, unless it is using uname(1) or (3) and 5.x doesn't have the environment variable overrides...but in that case hundreds of other things would break. Kris
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