Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:21:38 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, "pkg@freebsd.org" <pkg@freebsd.org>, "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool Message-ID: <1D2B4A91-E76C-43A0-BE75-D926357EF1AF@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5405AE54.60809@sorbs.net> References: <20140901195520.GB77917@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54050D07.4010404@sorbs.net> <CAOFF%2BZ1MOr9-rYbwHYWqBKjMvRPwUnew4jThEoJ_WkoTmwyNsQ@mail.gmail.com> <540522A3.9050506@sorbs.net> <54052891.5000104@my.hennepintech.edu> <54052DFA.4030808@freebsd.org> <54053372.6020009@my.hennepintech.edu> <5405890F.8080804@freebsd.org> <CAF-3MvNBWSEWF-HarwF0xcXQgo=7-dO%2BtvLMO1maELPY0RVhQQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140902125256.Horde.uv31ztwymThxUZ-OYPQoBw1@webmail.df.eu> <5405AE54.60809@sorbs.net>
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> On Sep 2, 2014, at 4:47, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> wrote:
>=20
> Marcus von Appen wrote:
>> Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com>:
>>=20
>>>=20
>>> I can totally understand that at some point it starts to get
>>> impossible to maintain two separate packaging systems and I understand
>>> that you think 2 years is enough time to shake things out, but
>>> software vendors aren't that quick. For many, 2 years is a short time.
>>=20
>> It also should be noted that everyone had enough time to raise those
>> issues
>> in the time between tthe announcement and now. No one did. Now that it is=
>> gone, they are brought up, while they should have been long time ago
>> instead. It can't work that way.
>>=20
>> My 2 cents in this discussion :-).
>=20
> Actually I brought it up as soon as I found the EOL was a deadline for
> breaking pkg_* tools, was told, "too late now" - that was more than 2
> weeks ago, less than 2 months ago (forget the date) ... I'm happy with
> an EOL and working to upgrade everything, I'm not happy that the EOL was
> not actually an EOL and it was actually a deadline.
Hi Michelle,
One subtle point that I wanted to ask for clarification is you thought t=
he EOL announcement for pkg_install was going to be "pkg_install is no longe=
r going to be supported, but you can still use it", instead of "pkg_install s=
upport is going to be removed from the tree" -- is that correct?
You'd probably hate to do this, but forking the sources and changing fro=
m portsnap to a git or svn backed ports tree that downloads a tarball snapsh=
ot might be the best resolution to this issue now...
Thanks!
-Garrett=
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