Errors with ports on 9.3..

[Howard Leadmon]

    Thanks for the update, I had the feeling the issue was from it being 
to old.   I have a question, not sure if you know, but I will toss it 
out.   As I mentioned I update using svn for both src and ports, and I 
am curious to know if I can actually bring my src tree up to the most 
current 10.x stable, recompile, and install and have it all run?

  In the past with much older versions, I know file system changes and 
such make it pretty hard to jump major revisions, so have a little bit 
of fear about jumping from 9.x to 10.x, and possibly even to 11.x if 
that is now stable.   I am using ZFS, so I guess that would be one thing 
that is outside the norm, but should be part of the base kernels now anyway.

  Any input on upgrading would be most appreciated...

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Howard Leadmon
PBW Communications, LLC
http://www.pbwcomm.com

On 6/3/2017 1:08 PM, Mark Saad wrote:
> Howard
>   There are 3 options . One upgrade to 10.x or 11.x and ports/pkg will work . Support for the 9 series and 10.1 and 10.2 was removed from ports a few months ago . Two check out ports via svn and use the tag RELEASE_9_EOL and use that as your starting point . This is ports before the support for 9 was dropped . It's not up to date but it will work .Lastly you could use pkgsrc from netbsd not Joynet , and do a full rebuild of what you need . Pkgsrc also has a pkgsrc to ports conversion tool if you want the subsequent pkgsrc packages registered in a FreeBSD standard pkg dir . This would work if you haven't converted 9 to use pkgng .
>
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/tags/RELEASE_9_EOL/
>
> https://www.pkgsrc.org/
>
>
>
> ---
> Mark Saad | nonesuch at longcount.org
>
>> On Jun 3, 2017, at 11:39 AM, Howard Leadmon <howard at leadmon.net> wrote:
>>
>> I know 9.3 is kinda dated, but it had been running fine so I left the servers alone as they were in a remote location many hours away.
>>
>> That said, if I try and do anything with ports (I keep everything updated using SVN), I get the following error:
>>
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1038: Unknown directive
>>
>> The line is:   .export         LANG LC_ALL
>>
>>
>> I even tried removing the ports tree, and bringing it all back down, but same error.   Maybe my googlefu is failing me, but I couldn't find this exact error listed anyplace.   I have a couple FBSD 9.3 machines still in existence, and they all do this with anything in ports now.
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestions?  Would just taking SVN to the current 10.x fix this?
>>
>> ---
>> Howard Leadmon
>> PBW Communications, LLC
>> http://www.pbwcomm.com
>>
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