From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 24 17: 5:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073E537B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f113.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA85B43E81 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:05:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:05:47 -0700 Received: from 66.89.179.250 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:05:47 GMT X-Originating-IP: [66.89.179.250] Reply-To: jmd17@columbia.edu From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: gzip packages on FreeBSD 4-STABLE Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:05:47 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Sep 2002 00:05:47.0600 (UTC) FILETIME=[4CDF4D00:01C26427] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Mah wrote: >As a side effect, this will once again allow older FreeBSD >installations to read recently-generated packages, although the >use of such packages is not officially supported. Can you please clarify this? Does this mean that once FreeBSD has completed the move to bzip2 then installations running older FreeBSD versions that support/use gzip will have to upgrade to the latest FreeBSD version in order to download/use newly generated packages? In essence, 1) there is no backward compatibility, right? so 2) will it be possible to 'upgrade' an older FreeBSD version to bzip2 without upgrading the system as a whole? Lastly, an unrelated question: is there a "roadmap" for what changes are planned in upcomming versions? If so, where can I find it? John (c) Copyright 2002 John Daniels. All rights reserved. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message