Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:45:50 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [cfr] patch to clean up old Linux ports Message-ID: <513B3D0E.2030603@passap.ru> In-Reply-To: <20130309141403.0000340e@unknown> References: <513A0C04.8090907@freebsd.org> <20130309121625.00004279@unknown> <513B2CB3.1020405@passap.ru> <20130309141403.0000340e@unknown>
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09.03.2013 17:14, Alexander Leidinger пишет: > On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:36:03 +0400 > Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru> wrote: >> 09.03.2013 15:16, Alexander Leidinger пишет: >> >>> 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). >> >> 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. I agree that a message (well, BROKEN or something else) should be used to inform a user. But that may be done via one check/file. Be it at bsd.ports.mk, bsd.linux.mk, etc. Why should HEAD track individual ports for 7.x after EOL? And when should 7.x actually be cleaned fro the portstree? There is no any other date for 7.x. OK, for those who continue use 7.x RELENG_7_EOL has been created. And those ports committers who are interested in ports for 7.x may use portstree with that particular tag. As well as those users who continue to use FreeBSD 7.x. -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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