Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:16:41 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Leonardo Lazarte <llazarte@mat.unb.br> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Announce Broken Ports Message-ID: <20030725221641.GB7911@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030725135522.G29917-100000@mx1.mat.unb.br> References: <20030725135522.G29917-100000@mx1.mat.unb.br>
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--4bRzO86E/ozDv8r1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:00:07PM -0300, Leonardo Lazarte wrote: >=20 > As seen in several messages to this and other lists, the PORTS > mecanism has been broken. >=20 > I have read about some patches and possible solutions, but I > could not find an easy way to overcome the problem. >=20 > Shouldn't it be announced clearly, on the FreeBSD site, that > there is a problem with PORTS, perhaps pointing to some > temporary solution, until the problem is solved? It is announced clearly on the FreeBSD website that old FreeBSD releases are unsupported. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ > I have used FreeBSD for a decade, and it is the first time > that I have to change the OS version due to problems broght > from the distributions. You've been fortunate, but if your claim is true (the FreeBSD project has existed for 10 years and 3 weeks, so you must have been one of the very first users), then you've presumably got the skills to cope. Kris --4bRzO86E/ozDv8r1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/IaxJWry0BWjoQKURAiuiAJ9Eco1EHxa1AxT9rwqEhZkAwQ5ffgCeMGy4 a/SUoJJf/GWVTCjlPqr7TyU= =hmxN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4bRzO86E/ozDv8r1--
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