Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:42:50 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkg(8) Message-ID: <20160129164250.GJ88527@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <22187.37990.812269.553074@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> References: <20160127223323.GG98557@FreeBSD.org> <183431.62409.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20160128131806.GB67200@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20160128160622.GB88527@zxy.spb.ru> <22186.43196.374050.48765@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> <20160129001525.GH88527@zxy.spb.ru> <22186.45987.44063.515924@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> <20160129010524.GI88527@zxy.spb.ru> <22187.37990.812269.553074@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:33:42AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 04:05:24 +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> said: > > >> [I wrote:] > >> through the intermediate source releases just as you would do now. > >> All you need to do is preserve the last release package set you build > >> from each stable branch. > > > I am talk about SUDDENLY discovered outdated setup. > > Well, modern best practice says "burn them to the ground". That's an > unsatisfying answer, but it is widely accepted that this is not a > situation worth turning somersaults for. I am understund. But not always.
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