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Date:      Wed, 01 Feb 2017 13:45:14 -0800
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r312910 - in head: . etc/etc.pc98 etc/rc.d lib/libsysdecode libexec release release/doc release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme release/doc/share/example...
Message-ID:  <1893823.eZvhe4dRmn@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20170201213956.GA3765@lonesome.com>
References:  <201701280222.v0S2MFSR022477@repo.freebsd.org> <20170201170950.GF79121@zxy.spb.ru> <20170201213956.GA3765@lonesome.com>

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On Wednesday, February 01, 2017 03:39:57 PM Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 08:09:50PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > Also, I am think current ports don't build on 4.x.
> 
> I will personally guarantee, in writing, that current ports do not build
> on 4.x, nor have they done so for years.  I personally removed the legacy
> cruft when 4.11 finally went EOL.
> 
> > I am got complains about using ports on 8.x.
> 
> I am 99% certain that ports will not work on either 8.x or 9.x.  Legacy
> cruft was removed at the EOL in each of those cases.
> 
> Anyone who think that we can support ports on 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x,
> 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, and -current, all at the same time, needs to seek medical
> attention at once.  At the absolute least, that era spans 3 major versions
> of make(1) and two completely different package implementations.

I think Slawa's point was that my suggestion that people with old hardware
should run old releases means that they cannot use a modern ports checkout
with those older systems.  That point is correct, but you probably don't
want to run newer, more bloated 3rd party software on such gear either.

-- 
John Baldwin



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