Kurt Jaeger wrote on 2017/02/09 17:26:
Hi!
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 04:30:20PM +0100, Franco Fichtner wrote:
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.
Stop spreading FUD. There is no ABI breakage on stable/10 branch,
nor there is a breakage in the package sets.
On the one hand:
Maybe we can agree that the pkg binary breaking between different
10.x versions was unfortunate ? I understand that it was not a
break of the ABI promises per se, but I can tell you, I was surprised
as well, when it bite me 8-}
On the other hand:
Getting the ports/pkg tree moving with the velocity necessary
to cope with the fast-changing world, sometimes things break
and we all try to prevent this. Sometimes, mistakes happen...
I don't have a problem with pkg / ports but I see the point from some
others perspective.
Why don't add some check in to "pkg" to deny (or warn user) upgrade or
install on unsupported / EOLed system?
Just check version on current system against some metadata info in
repository.
Is it too much to ask?
Miroslav Lachman
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