From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 10:18:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC1A16A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:18:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [208.210.80.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA1A43D67 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:17:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from blues.jpj.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blues.jpj.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0RIHnrr021353; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:17:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost)i0RIHkkf021347; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:17:47 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: blues.jpj.net: trevor owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:17:46 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson To: Thomas Vogt In-Reply-To: <8981.1075222428@www28.gmx.net> Message-ID: <20040127123708.A1639@blues.jpj.net> References: <8981.1075222428@www28.gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux_base end of life? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:18:15 -0000 > Hi Hi! > As far as I know, the linux_base packages and the port itself are based on > RedHat 7.x. RedHat 7.x and 8.x reached end of life at the end of last year > (2003-12-31). 9.x will reach it's end of life on the 30th of April 2004. > There are no more security updates availble for redhat 7x/8x, and most > probably neither for the current linux_base system. There are a couple (RHSA-2003:325 and RHSA-2003:287) that haven't been fully brought into the ports collection. It's possible for us to prepare our own RPMs. Red Hat 7.2 for the Alpha is supposed to be maintained by Hewlett-Packard. I'm not sure whether they still keep up with updates for it. They did as recently as September. > Are there any plans to switch to another linux distribution as base package? Well, we have ports of Debian and Gentoo. I haven't tried any of the numerous RPM-based ports with either of those; my guess would be that with Debian's "alien" facility, they could be made to co-exist with it, and that much of what we have in the ports collection is available in Gentoo's portage. Other work they need is: - update Gentoo port so it's fetchable for all architectures - update Debian port - add Alpha support to Debian port - make a port of portage to accompany Gentoo port Do you have suggestions for other Linux distributions that could go in the ports collection? Ones that support both Alpha and i386, are RPM-based, have some popularity and can be downloaded would be ideal IMO. -- Trevor Johnson