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Date:      Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:33:42 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkg(8)
Message-ID:  <22187.37990.812269.553074@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20160129010524.GI88527@zxy.spb.ru>
References:  <20160127223323.GG98557@FreeBSD.org> <183431.62409.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20160128131806.GB67200@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20160128160622.GB88527@zxy.spb.ru> <22186.43196.374050.48765@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> <20160129001525.GH88527@zxy.spb.ru> <22186.45987.44063.515924@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> <20160129010524.GI88527@zxy.spb.ru>

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<<On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 04:05:24 +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> said:

>> [I wrote:]
>> through the intermediate source releases just as you would do now.
>> All you need to do is preserve the last release package set you build
>> from each stable branch.

> I am talk about SUDDENLY discovered outdated setup.

Well, modern best practice says "burn them to the ground".  That's an
unsatisfying answer, but it is widely accepted that this is not a
situation worth turning somersaults for.

-GAWollman



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