Re: Get ${OSREL} at install time

Yuri wrote:
> Felix Palmen wrote:
>> * Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> [20230418 09:05]:
>>> Any sugestion or example that permits to get OSREL at install time?
>>
>> Not really OSREL, but when I needed to know the FreeBSD version at
>> install time, this is what I did:
>>
>> https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/security/unix-selfauth-helper/pkg-post-install.lua
> 
> Took a look at this and now I'm wondering if it gets run at all, you
> don't seem to specify PKGPOSTINSTALL in the Makefile, and bsd.port.mk
> has it as just pkg-post-install, not handling .lua?  It's also is not in
> the .pkg file contents.  Sorry if I'm missing something.

Nevermind me, I see that it's there, sorry for the noise.

>> It's not exactly nice, just parsing the version manually...
> 
> I was going to suggest something similar with using kern.osreldate and
> parsing it according to
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/versions/, e.g.
> 
> 1301000 <= value < 1301500 - 13.1-RELEASE
> 1301500 <= value < 1302000 - outdated 13.1-STABLE
> 1302000 <= value < 1302500 - 13.2-RELEASE
> 1302500 <= value < 1303000 - current 13.2-STABLE
> 1400000 <= value           - 14.0-CURRENT
>