From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 05:36:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFC216A4CE; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:36:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.leaguehost.net (node-423a611b.sjc.onnet.us.uu.net [66.58.97.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61AD743D41; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:36:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eric@pretorious.net) Received: from [172.16.0.129] (node-423a611e.sjc.onnet.us.uu.net [66.58.97.30]) by mail.leaguehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062F7ACD; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:38:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Pretorious To: Ken Smith Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:36:11 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <200504250112.20266.eric@pretorious.net> <20050426021322.GA2457@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050426021322.GA2457@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504262236.11869.eric@pretorious.net> cc: doc@freebsd.org cc: scottl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_4_10? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:36:10 -0000 On Monday 25 April 2005 07:13 pm, Ken Smith wrote: >On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:12:19AM -0700, Eric Pretorious wrote: >> Is it still possible to maintain a 4.10 installation? (This subject isn't >> addressed directly in The Handbook.) > >Due to the size of the main FTP site we have needed to trim down on >how many of the full package sets we keep online. The precompiled >packages from the 4.10 release are one of the ones taken off the >main mirror sites. Hm. This concerns me: What are the long-term prospects for systems built using packages? >At this point you can only do a basic install of 4.10 and then build >up from that after the initial reboot. Once it's up and running you >can do one of: > > - Build your own ports from /usr/ports using the normal > procedures for building them yourself. This might not > be completely successful - some of the downloads that > are needed for that old an ports tree might not be available > any more. > - Better, update /usr/ports using cvsup and do the builds from > that. You'll get more current versions of things (and there > have been security related fixes to many ports that are worth > getting). > - If you really want to use pre-compiled packages (see above > comment saying many packages have had important security > fixes - the precompiled packages won't have those fixes) > are still available on the ftp-archive.freebsd.org site. > would have the 4.10 release package set on it. Thanks. After installing the ports tree from the installation CD (Release #5) and attempting to build two ports (isc-dhcp3-server & cvsup-without-gui) that both failed, I gave up on 4.10 and installed 4.11. I'm concerned about the long-term maintainability of this system though (because it was built using packages instead of ports). What can I do to extend the life of this installation? Thanks again! -- Eric P., Truckee, CA