From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed May 4 05:44:50 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1498AB2C63C for ; Wed, 4 May 2016 05:44:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00FFE17C9 for ; Wed, 4 May 2016 05:44:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 004D1B2C63B; Wed, 4 May 2016 05:44:50 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F4116B2C63A for ; Wed, 4 May 2016 05:44:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B89BA17C8; Wed, 4 May 2016 05:44:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (ppp121-45-225-151.lns20.per1.internode.on.net [121.45.225.151]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id u445iZk4093377 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 3 May 2016 22:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: old ports/packages To: Mathieu Arnold , Julian Elischer , ports@freebsd.org References: <03cc4012-026e-c007-09e1-ee45524f1b95@elischer.org> <1FAFDF989841D03604BB448B@atuin.in.mat.cc> From: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <7b8d22c6-1fed-d517-9f89-693b88dfc358@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 13:44:29 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1FAFDF989841D03604BB448B@atuin.in.mat.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 05:44:50 -0000 On 3/05/2016 2:31 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > +--On 3 mai 2016 12:02:13 +0800 Julian Elischer wrote: > | On 2/05/2016 8:39 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > |> +--On 2 mai 2016 18:39:57 +0800 Julian Elischer > |> wrote: > |> | Hi guys, > |> | > |> | ok so I see: > |> | > |> | 2014-04-30 ports-mgmt/pkg_install: Replaced by ports-mgmt/pkg > |> | > |> | > |> | So now how do enterprises maintaining appliances etc. generate packages > |> | for old systems? > |> > |> There is a tag, https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/tags/PKG_INSTALL_EOL/ > |> that gives you the last version to support pkg_install. Anything after > |> that will not work with it. At all. > |> > | I'm not looking to produce old packages of the ports tree.. I know the > | ports crew would hate me for that. > | > | What I object to is not having the tools needed to generate MY OWN > | PACKAGES in ports. > > You can generate your own packages from the ports tree, just not with > pkg_install, it was deprecated three or four years ago, and remove 19 > months ago. > The best way to generate packages is with ports-mgmt/poudriere, it will > generate a very nice pkg repository. > Of course I can create NEW packages.. I want to generate OLD style packages.. what's so hard to understand about that? if a company has old packages build into it's infrastructure.... and has to create old style packages of "proprietary stuff" to send out to appliances out in the field then you are breaking them.