Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:38:13 +0100 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ability for maintainers to update own ports Message-ID: <3FB13AA5.7090209@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <20031111183540.GA26599@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1068458390.38101.19.camel@dirk.no.domain> <20031110152000.622db381.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <1068471598.38101.77.camel@dirk.no.domain> <20031110163623.GC93583@procyon.firepipe.net> <1068495958.690.72.camel@leguin> <53EC784E-13C5-11D8-AD24-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <3FB00E53.8060603@fillmore-labs.com> <20031111021929.GA17050@xor.obsecurity.org> <73E9F604-1472-11D8-BD31-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <20031111183540.GA26599@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:11:21PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > > >>Branching ports might help out people who try to update their ports >>while running older versions of FreeBSD (yes, I understand that >>supporting older versions is at a low priority, but this would address >>some user expectations/complaints), and it might smooth "cataclysmic >>events" involving changes to the ports infrastructure, changes to >>-CURRENT which break lots of ports, etc. > > I'm not interested in supporting old releases..it's too much work. > More broadly speaking, there doesn't seem to be significant interest > from the community to provide support for old releases. If there was, > it's something that could be provided by a group of interested members > of this list. sysutils/pkg_install is a attempt to supports older releases. In a production environment it is not always possible to upgrade the base system at will. I'll try my best not to break backwards compatibility without a good reason. Oliver
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