Bug 254819

Summary:	ports system complains FreeBSD 12.1 is no longer supported
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Brett Wynkoop <bsdbugs>
Component:	Ports Framework	Assignee:	Mathieu Arnold <mat>
Status:	Closed Works As Intended
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	bsdbugs, lwhsu, ports-bugs, vidar
Priority:	---	Flags:	bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (mat)
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Brett Wynkoop 2021-04-06 14:54:10 UTC

root@prd1:/usr/ports/dns/bind916 # uname -a
FreeBSD prd1 12.1-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p7 GENERIC  amd64
root@prd1:/usr/ports/dns/bind916 # make
/!\ ERROR: /!\

Ports Collection support for your FreeBSD version has ended, and no ports are
guaranteed to build on this system. 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.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/dns/bind916
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/dns/bind916


I am at a loss as to how 12.1 can be unsupported when 13 is not yet even released.

Comment 1 Vidar Karlsen 2021-04-06 15:00:43 UTC

According to freebsd.org/releases[1] the currently supported releases are 11.4 and 12.2.

12.1 reached end-of-life in November, 2019.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/releases/

Comment 2 Li-Wen Hsu freebsd_committer

2021-04-06 15:07:41 UTC

Yes please check https://www.freebsd.org/security/ for the support information and it's recommended to upgrade to the latest 12.x.