From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 22:02:38 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D72DC16A420 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:02:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Received: from a.mail.sonic.net (a.mail.sonic.net [64.142.16.245]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB7B13C474 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:02:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Received: from dhcp-1-248.packetdesign.com (firewall-gw-dirty-n.packetdesign.com [65.87.20.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by a.mail.sonic.net (8.13.8.Beta0-Sonic/8.13.7) with ESMTP id lASM2YXc032636 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:02:38 -0800 Message-ID: <474DE57A.60601@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:02:34 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jayton Garnett References: <20071128095933.I57641@numail.brianwhalen.net> <474DD7D6.7000706@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <474DD7D6.7000706@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=5ba052c3 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7DBAA1F9EC704F10AC198291" Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:02:38 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7DBAA1F9EC704F10AC198291 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Jayton Garnett wrote: > Brian wrote: >> It is interesting that if you run freebsd-update on a 6.2 system, you = >> get an end of life approaching please upgrade message. This is=20 >> surprising since either of the upgrade targets are not yet released.=20 >> Additionally, the phrase End of Life has pretty strong conntations. EOL is a commonly-used term in the software industry. For FreeBSD, it is the point past which a given release will no longer be supported by security advisories/patches, as well as freebsd-update. > Thats odd, never knew FreeBSD had an EoL, other than support ceasing fo= r=20 > older releases, which is most likely refers to. But surely 6.2 is still= =20 > to be supported for a few more years?! This page gives the official EOL dates for the various FreeBSD releases, as well as more information surrounding this term. As I write this, the estimated EOL for 6.2-RELEASE is 31 May 2008. http://security.freebsd.org/ There were postings to stable@ and security@ about this message...if I remember right the basic gist was that freebsd-update(8) makes some assumptions about when the EOL date that turned out not to be true due to delays in 6.3-RELEASE, and that this message can be safely ignored. Bruce. --------------enig7DBAA1F9EC704F10AC198291 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHTeV62MoxcVugUsMRAk74AJsEEMTIufevYmdoakLurJiy8ZzLRgCguMPG Gh/C+89Vcc/QhvnTQC46NYw= =eYRs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7DBAA1F9EC704F10AC198291--