Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 10:56:00 -0500 From: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> To: asami@clickarray.com (Satoshi Asami) Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support Message-ID: <200103041556.KAA38229@pobox.rwwa.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "03 Mar 2001 12:29:36 PST." <yfkofvi8ukv.fsf@vader.clickarray.com>
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asami@clickarray.com said: :-The idea is to give 3-stable users a fighting chance to use the latest :-ports while not burdening the porters with any extra work for 3-stable :-support. I agree with this level of support. The only question I have is: Having just upgraded my ports/Mk I can't build any ports on 3.x and since there isn't an "upgrade kit" anymore it isn't clear what I need to "fight" to get the one or two ports updated before I can schedule downtime and upgrade all these 3.x systems to 4.x. So I have a suggestion: Could the ports web page be modified this way: Start a new paragraph beginning with "The 3.x branch is fast approaching", and add something like this after "4.3-RELEASE is rolled." "In the meantime, many of the ports here *may* work on 3.x systems if you do the following: xxxxx". (Obviously someone far more knowlegable than me would have to fill in the xxxx! ;-) And this would be deleted when 4.3 is out (on CDROM please!). That would greatly help the (I'm guessing) many of us who accept the need to move on in our lives (and upgrade to a version of FBSD from this millenium), but just can't do it *right now*. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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