Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 10:00:10 -0400 From: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD? Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOu1_zaxpjkhbQ%2BF4hf%2BgHuJBJZ5jaaPafKZ0NSxnueWYA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3851080.JQJobqxLc8@x220.ovitrap.com> References: <C480320C-0CD9-4B61-8AFB-37085C820AB7@FreeBSD.org> <2421561.4aJcXPZZxh@x220.ovitrap.com> <4FCB38F2.4030505@ateamsystems.com> <3851080.JQJobqxLc8@x220.ovitrap.com>
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On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Erich <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 03 June 2012 PM 5:14:10 Adam Strohl wrote: >> On 6/3/2012 11:14, Erich wrote: >> > What I really do not understand in this whole discussion is very simple. Is it just a few people who run into problems like this or is this simply ignored by the people who set the strategy for FreeBSD? >> > >> > I mention since yeares here that putting version numbers onto the port tree would solve many of these problems. All I get as an answer is that it is not possible. >> > >> > I think that this should be easily possible with the limitation that older versions do not have security fixes. Yes, but of what help is a security fix if there is no running port for the fix? >> >> I feel like I'm missing something. Why would you ever want to go back >> to an old version of the ports tree? You're ignoring tons of security >> issues! >> >> And if a port build is broken then the maintainer needs to fix it, that >> is the solution. >> >> I must be missing something else here, it just seems like the underlying >> "need" for this is misguided (and dangerous from a security perspective). > > yes, you miss a very simple thing. Updated this morning your ports tree. Your client asks for something for Monday morning for which you need now a program which needs some kind of PNG but you did not install it. > > Do you have a machine that is fast enough to upgrade all your ports and still finish what your client needs Monday morning? > > The ports tree is not broken as such. Only the installation gets broken in some sense. Have a version number there would allow people to go back to the last known working ports tree, install the software - or whatever has to be done - with a working system. > > Of course, the next step will be an upgrade. But only after the work which brings in the money is done. > > You do not face this problem on Windows. You can run a 10 year old 'kernel' and still install modern software. > > Erich > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I am not currently using FreeBSD because I am transient, two laptops and only one works, not able to set up a FreeBSD system- using Linux.
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