Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 00:46:59 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: NOTICE: ports being disconnected from 2.0R soon Message-ID: <199504090746.AAA04678@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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Howdy ports-hackers. We've been trying to make the ports/ tree (which resides under FreeBSD-current, as you know) as friendly as possible to the 2.0R systems, and right now you can still compile most of the ports on a 2.0R machine only with minor modifications (with the new bsd.port.mk, sed, which). However, with the big overhaul the ports framework looming ahead in the horizon, it will be virtually impossible to keep ties with 2.0R while still making progress. Also, the minor version number of the shared libc changed in -current recently, which makes it harder for us to compile packages that will run on 2.0R machines as well as -current systems. Thus, after we finish the standardization of Makefiles and package names, we are going to "freeze" one copy of the ports/ tree and put it up on ftp.freebsd.org as ports-2.0-final/ or something. This will happen in a few days, probably mid-next week (pardon my Japanese). At the same time, the existing packages/ directory will be renamed to packages-2.0/ as well, as the newly compiled packages will not work on 2.0R systems. What this means to you (the porters) is that, if you want something to be available to 2.0R users, please act NOW! Otherwise you'll be on your own to do the compilation and stuff. Thanks! Satoshi
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