From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 03:26:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81620C6F; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 03:26:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from na01-bn1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-bn1blp0188.outbound.protection.outlook.com [207.46.163.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.protection.outlook.com", Issuer "MSIT Machine Auth CA 2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A37F41AA2; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 03:26:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2601:2:4780:2fd:3cfa:1b41:db29:34df] (10.255.156.132) by CY1PR0301MB0843.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (25.160.163.149) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1019.16; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 03:26:06 +0000 Message-ID: <540538C6.8050505@my.hennepintech.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 22:25:58 -0500 From: Andrew Berg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michelle Sullivan Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool References: <20140901195520.GB77917@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54050D07.4010404@sorbs.net> <540522A3.9050506@sorbs.net> <54052891.5000104@my.hennepintech.edu> <54052B1D.3040607@sorbs.net> <54053363.2030606@my.hennepintech.edu> <540534D3.603@sorbs.net> In-Reply-To: <540534D3.603@sorbs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.255.156.132] X-ClientProxiedBy: CH1PR03CA002.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (10.255.156.147) To CY1PR0301MB0843.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (25.160.163.149) X-Microsoft-Antispam: BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:;UriScan:; X-Forefront-PRVS: 0322B4EDE1 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: SFV:NSPM; SFS:(6009001)(189002)(199003)(24454002)(31966008)(74662001)(74502001)(77096002)(83322001)(50986999)(42186005)(59896002)(4396001)(93886004)(85306004)(99396002)(87266999)(76176999)(65816999)(99136001)(80316001)(54356999)(102836001)(110136001)(33656002)(46102001)(88552001)(21056001)(83506001)(64706001)(50466002)(101416001)(85852003)(83072002)(90102001)(79102001)(80022001)(23676002)(65956001)(86362001)(89122001)(76482001)(92726001)(64126003)(47776003)(20776003)(81342001)(81542001)(92566001)(77982001)(107046002)(75432001)(95666004)(87976001)(105586002)(106356001)(89472002); DIR:OUT; SFP:; SCL:1; SRVR:CY1PR0301MB0843; H:[IPv6:2601:2:4780:2fd:3cfa:1b41:db29:34df]; FPR:; MLV:sfv; PTR:InfoNoRecords; MX:1; A:0; LANG:en; X-OriginatorOrg: my.hennepintech.edu Cc: pkg@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin , FreeBSD Current , stable@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, "Sam Fourman Jr." X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 03:26:12 -0000 On 2014.09.01 22:09, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > That's my point - there was a patch waiting to submit that knowingly > broke pkg_install at midnight on the day after the EOL... the EOL > shouldn't be an EOL - because it was really a 'portsnap after this date > before you upgrade and you're screwed it won't work any more at all...' As Peter outlined, this EOL was announced long ago, and it was mentioned at least once that it was to allow breaking changes. There really would be no reason to drop support for it in the ports tree if there were no plans to make changes.