From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 04:08:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED4A16A4CE; Thu, 19 May 2005 04:08:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.jp.viruscheck.net (smtp4.jp.viruscheck.net [154.33.69.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD1D43D5D; Thu, 19 May 2005 04:08:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bland@FreeBSD.org) Received: from scan3.jp.viruscheck.net ([154.33.69.38] helo=mail3.jp.viruscheck.net) by smtp4.jp.viruscheck.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1DYcKH-0005Fz-00; Thu, 19 May 2005 13:08:01 +0900 Received: from [60.35.184.76] (helo=noc.orchid) by mail3.jp.viruscheck.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #3) id 1DYcKH-0004ID-00; Thu, 19 May 2005 13:08:01 +0900 Received: from [89.60.10.11] (horse.orchid [89.60.10.11]) by noc.orchid (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4J47oDg027854; Thu, 19 May 2005 13:07:50 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from bland@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <428C1115.7070607@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:07:49 +0900 From: Alexander Nedotsukov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jimmie James References: <7e148fb90505181751368fdad0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7e148fb90505181751368fdad0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users cc: Joe Marcus Clarke Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Dropping support for GNOME on FreeBSD 4.X X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 04:08:14 -0000 Hey Jimmie, It looks like your main and the only problem that you can not move to 5.x yet. Did you report you troubles to stable@ or current@ mail lists? All the best, Alexander. Jimmie James wrote: > >Great. :( > >Unfortunatly, I can't update to 5.x untill I get a new system. I've >tried every 5.x release since about 4.4, and not one will install >here. > > > > >>FreeBSD 4.X is dead, developmentwise. >> >> >If "FreeBSD 4.X is dead", then why is it still being prompted on the site? >Wasn't there just a flurry of USB commits for the 4.x branch? > > > >>Bug reports will be entertained on a per-port basis. Some ports may >>continue to see life on 4.X provided they build and are functional. >>This will be left up to the maintainer's discretion, of course. >> >> > >That says to me, when remote vuln's creap in, all the 4.x users are >going to be exploited, and there's nothing we'll be able to do, but >to lose out, or become part of a botnet. > >Considering E.O.L of 4.11 is January 31, 2007, I think this is unreasonable. > > > >>More and more ports break with GCC 2.x. >> >> >More and more ports have build depends of GCC 3.x, I don't see how GCC >2.x factors into this choice. > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >