Re: OS_VERSION and NetBSD 10.0

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 12:09:13PM +0000, nia wrote:
 > The release of NetBSD 10.0 will cause problems in pkgsrc due to the
 > number of packages that attempt to evaluate the major version with
 > :M on OS_VERSION.
 > 
 > Is there any consensus on how we're going to deal with this yet?
 > 
 > If not, I propose introducing a OS_MAJOR_VERSION variable to the
 > mk/ infrastructure that only contains the first number.

My plan was to introduce pkgsrc-dewey comparisons to make, but that
had to go into -8 to be available now and it didn't get done then :-(

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David A. Holland
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