Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 09:27:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old ports/packages In-Reply-To: <574ED144.1050603@quip.cz> References: <03cc4012-026e-c007-09e1-ee45524f1b95@elischer.org> <B32DD056A6281C191CD35AA2@ogg.in.absolight.net> <c528a76d-5b94-01a3-f27e-7d174faf544e@freebsd.org> <1FAFDF989841D03604BB448B@atuin.in.mat.cc> <7b8d22c6-1fed-d517-9f89-693b88dfc358@freebsd.org> <20160504070341.GV740@mail0.byshenk.net> <3dfd6fea-da32-b922-65d1-f64b8e113112@toco-domains.de> <6e340f95-6d10-4991-0cd6-95d336e2f044@gjunka.com> <3e55c7d8-801c-a2b3-e92e-9945e896142b@toco-domains.de> <5809f808-8b16-93ed-5351-828a7d68eb2b@unsane.co.uk> <c71c19de-f712-6116-cdb3-10580054ab23@toco-domains.de> <574ED144.1050603@quip.cz>
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> To be fair the support is last release + 2 years, supporting a minor > version for more than 2 years seems unreasonable, compare to say redhat > a major commercial vendor. You can't really compare FreeBSD to a Redhat or Ubuntu LTS in this way because ports generally continue to be upgradeable after a bsd release has been EOL'd. That contrasts with Linux in so far as application versions are frozen _on_release_ rather than on EOL i.e., the apache httpd version you installed when 6 or 14.04 first came out is typically the apache httpd version you're stuck with until the system is upgraded to the next major LTS version (except for security backports). Freebsd's monolithic base is another matter and has been a red-flag at many organizations. Having endured 'buildworld; buildkernel; installkernal; reboot' and 'installworld; mergemaster' over the past few weeks I can say without exaggeration it is an order of magnitude more time consuming that 'yum update' or 'aptitude upgrade'. Many of us are eagerly await base packages to fix this bad situation AND enable an LTS model that is superior those in Linux (or any other OS for that matter). IMO, Roger
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