Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 14:14:03 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [cfr] patch to clean up old Linux ports Message-ID: <20130309141403.0000340e@unknown> In-Reply-To: <513B2CB3.1020405@passap.ru> References: <513A0C04.8090907@freebsd.org> <20130309121625.00004279@unknown> <513B2CB3.1020405@passap.ru>
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On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:36:03 +0400 Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru> wrote: > 09.03.2013 15:16, Alexander Leidinger =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: >=20 > > The EoL announcement made it clear that ports need to be marked > > broken if they don't work on 7, so it means the generic ports > > framework has no hard "doesn't work" (yet). >=20 > As I understand the announcement, those "ports should be marked > broken", etc. should be done at RELENG_7_EOL tag. Otherwise there is > no sense at EOL itself. BROKEN is used to announce as soon as possible that it will not work, whereas e.g. a compile error on 7 could manifest it self after a long time of compiling something. Think also about those people which don't know that 7 is EoL, but still run portsnap. At one point they may want to install a port and then it fails. If there's no message what's wrong (the system needs to be updated), they may spend a lot of time to search the cause of the problem. With a little helpful message they know directly. Bye, Alexander. --=20 http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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