Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT

From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:14:51 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, h h wrote:

> Kevin Oberman <kob6558_at_gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Ade Lovett <ade_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> With the advent of the conversion of HEAD to 10.0-CURRENT and, as to be
>>> expected, ports/ is going to be essentially unusable for a while.
>>>
>>> The issue stems from configure scripts (to choose something completely
>>> at random) assuming that FreeBSD would never jump to a double-digit
>>> major version number, and as such, various regexps for "freebsd1*" (ie:
>>> FreeBSD 1.1.x) are now matching "freebsd10".
> [...]
>>
>> aDe,
>>
>> Could an entry to this effect be added to UPDATING (with a matching
>> entry when ports/ is "unbroken").
>
> Also mention a workaround, e.g.
>
>  $ export UNAME_r='9.9-BLAH'

Assuming that a script's detection algorithm is simple. Please see 
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2007-07/msg00597.html 
for a more complete masquerading algorithm.p
-Garrett
Received on Tue Sep 27 2011 - 06:14:55 UTC

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