Hi, On 02/09/2017 10:30, Franco Fichtner wrote: > Hi Steve, > >> On 9 Feb 2017, at 4:09 PM, Steve Wills <swi...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> Ports and packages are maintained on the assumption that the user is >> using a supported version of the OS. We didn't decide when to end >> support for 10.1 or 10.2. How long after the end of life for 10.1 would >> you have ports maintain support? > > The issue is quite simple and cause of multiple issues: > > FreeBSD package management makes an ABI promise in the form of > "FreeBSD:10:amd64", but not even pkg code itself adheres to this, > and thus we have had subtle and yet fatal breakage in 10.2 and 10.3. > > And since pkg acts according to the imposed paradigm of a unified > ABI, this will continue to be a source of problems for users who > cannot know what's going on, lest even know how to fix it. > > They simply run: > > # pkg upgrade > > And then their systems are unusable *and* not fixable with pkg. > > What are they supposed to do? They come here. They want to make > everyone aware that this is a serious issue that shouldn't repeat > in FreeBSD 11. It's not to late to do that by pinning the pkg ABI > to 11.0 by forcing the proper feature macros.
They're supposed to upgrade to a supported version of FreeBSD. Steve
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