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Date:      Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:50:01 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        pav@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: pointyhat is building for 5.5 but claiming 8.0
Message-ID:  <47840C29.9030304@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <31152339@bb.ipt.ru>
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>	<4784072D.9040003@FreeBSD.org> <31152339@bb.ipt.ru>

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Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:28:45 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> The port is using "uname -r" at the Makefile:
> -----
> OSRELEASE!=        /usr/bin/uname -r
> -----
> 
> 
> WBR

Yes, but that alone should be fine unless the above.

Kris



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