When did pkg(8) drop support for 12-stable?

[Brian W.]

Ah didn't consider that this was an old enough ver of stable to cause this.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 6:08 PM Chris <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:

> On 2021-02-23 17:42, Mark Millard wrote:
> > (Warner is only CC'd here.)
> >
> > Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com wrote on
> > Wed Feb 24 01:04:13 UTC 2021 :
> >
> >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 4:51 PM Chris <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Given this is a pkg(8) error, I brought it up on ports@
> >> > but it was suggested I (also?) bring it up here on stable@
> >> >
> >> > OK awhile back I installed a copy of 12 stable from the
> >> > usb stick image. I tweaked it to my wishes then got called
> >> > away and haven't been able to get back to it until the other
> >> > day. This is still a fresh install which has a populated /usr/src.
> >> > So I
> >> > svnlite co svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports
> >> > followed by a
> >> > cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg/ && make install clean
> >> > which returns
> >> > make
> >> > /!\ ERROR: /!\
> >> >
> >> > Ports Collection support for your FreeBSD version has ended, and no
> ports
> >> > are
> >> > guaranteed to build on this syst
> >> em. Please upgrade to a supported release.
> >> >
> >> > No support will be provided if you silence this message by defining
> >> > ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_SYSTEM.
> >> >
> >> > *** Error code 1
> >> >
> >> > Stop.
> >> > Err what? Ok while I think this was from stable 12.1, it's still
> still 12,
> >> > and it's on stable. So what gives?
> >> >
> >>
> >> 12.1 has reached EOL now that 12.2 has been out a while.
> >
> >> From release/12.1.0/ :
> >
> > "Tag releng/12.1 at r354233 as release/12.1.0 (12.1-RELEASE)"
> >
> > I think that implicit in Warner's response is that
> > versions of stable/12/ that are not after r354233 are
> > also EOL. One needs to have stable/12/ material from
> > after -r354233 in order for it to be supported.
> >
> > He might even mean that stable/12/ material from before:
> >
> > "Tag releng/12.2 at r366954 as release/12.2.0 (12.2-RELEASE)"
> >
> > would also be considered as not supported.
> >
> > To be safe you should be using stable/12/ material from
> > on or after -r366954 in order to have a supported
> > context.
> >
> > (I'm not sure if anything is explicit about the status
> > of stable/12/ material between releng/12.1 at r354233
> > and releng/12.2 at r366954 .)
> A HUGE thanks for all of this, Mark. This is EXACTLY what I needed.
>
> # uname -apKU
> FreeBSD fbsd12dev 12.1-STABLE FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE r363918 GENERIC  amd64
> amd64 1201522 1201522
> which pretty well confirms what you deduced.
> I'm still a bit confused. It seems to me that it didn't _used_
> to be that way. But my brain isn't using ECC. So a couple of
> bits may be flipped.
>
> >
> > Since you did not provide the output from the
> > likes of "uname -apKU" (or some rough equivalent)
> > I've no direct clue which version you were trying.
> > But you should be able to compare to the above to
> > see which range the material is from.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> --Chris
> >
> > ===
> > Mark Millard
> > marklmi at yahoo.com
> > ( dsl-only.net went
> > away in early 2018-Mar)
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