Wesley Shields wrote:
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 07:26:39PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
I'm working on a revision to a port where the current version doesn't
work on 8.0-R; however, an older version does. Rather than roll the
entire port back to an older version, I'd like to have the newer version
available to 7.x and older and the older version available to 8.x and
newer. Is it appropriate to install different versions of a port based
on ${OSVERSION}? If so, do I just set the necessary variables after
including bsd.port.pre.mk?
This seems like a bad idea to me. How much effort would it take to fix
the port on 8.x and newer?
The port contains a static-linked binary from the vendor--not something
I can patch.
The other option is to mark it broken on 8.x and newer.
The port currently sets BROKEN if OSVERSION >= 800000.
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