Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:08:21 +0600 From: Jan Beich <jbeich@tormail.org> To: Thomas Abthorpe <portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] FreeBSD Ports tree has been tagged with RELEASE_7_EOL Message-ID: <1UDYrv-0003UL-Ko@internal.tormail.org> References: <20130306171916.GA34145@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Thomas Abthorpe <portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> - We do not require committers/maintainers to support 7.x, although ports
> will need to be marked as BROKEN/IGNORE if they do not build/run.
Why not add an entry to UPDATING and teach portsnap(8) about EOLTIME?
# a sample text based on freebsd-update(8)
if [ ${EOLTIME} -lt ${NOWTIME} ]; then
echo
cat <<-EOF
WARNING: `uname -sr` HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE.
Any ports issues discovered after `date -r ${EOLTIME}`
specific to your version may not be corrected.
EOF
return 1
fi
For one, not reading UPDATING pretty much guarantees running into an
issue at some point anyway compared to not reading ports-announce@ list.
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