From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 01:46:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9528416A420 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:46:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05D3E43D46 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:46:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr8so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.184]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IM0004G4I9YPP60@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:46:46 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IM000CBMI9YS1J0@pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:46:46 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IM00072JI9XX8@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:46:46 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:46:45 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050828110055.GP37107@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> To: Peter Jeremy Message-id: <4313BA85.9050809@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <4310D819.9080903@freebsd.org> <20050828001550.GO37107@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <431173D6.4020709@freebsd.org> <20050828110055.GP37107@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsnap base thought X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:46:47 -0000 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sun, 2005-Aug-28 01:20:38 -0700, Colin Percival wrote: >>My biggest concern with doing this in a minor release is the question of >>removing ports.tgz. That tarball has been on the release CDs for an awfully >>long time, and I'm sure there are people who will be quite astonished if it >>suddenly disappears. > > Since there's space, include both in 6.x, with ports.tgz marked as > deprecated. If you consider 6.0 to be an "early adopter's" release, > you can probably get away with claiming that ports.tgz has been > deprecated for the 6.x tree and can therefore be dropped in 7.x As far as I know, there are no plans for 6.0 to be declared an "early adopter's" release. As always, such announcements can only come from the release engineering team, but the last I've heard is that the 6-STABLE branch will start with 6.0-RELEASE. Colin Percival