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-li...@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@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@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@r354233 > > and releng/12.2@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) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"