From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Tue Jun 27 13:26:09 2017 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 43EC9DAA976 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:26:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: from nm11-vm5.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm11-vm5.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.114.228]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F0F2166232 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:26:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=att.net; s=s1024; t=1498569856; bh=ImQx8nkoYTpIJUbSi7KeB6u27473gr+mFu8Y5gopONw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:References:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=MBNBa0Pab+bDGMSE6ZlNiC5Lunl0Lp1zJTBWf6CjYWw8roP7IsaGwgStze34UPIHTskeRd8a7k6UJNKviu8mgxGGpuO/1h77pDAnTpXBDI9g/5usGD1OslceXxgq3X6a/TszpCTyiS6VWxIMnH7uLkEDqn9wiLBfx1nQUtB756g= Received: from [66.196.81.162] by nm11.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Jun 2017 13:24:16 -0000 Received: from [98.139.244.51] by tm8.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Jun 2017 13:24:16 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp113.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Jun 2017 13:24:16 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 755098.8223.bm@smtp113.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: LkBc7UgVM1mTAl0xr1febCc7ogdLigmsuTzNWohn1p4Kauv jSsc9A3G7ENuX4VZCkBQLIaxI5GtoETUI3F2Oly8ubpd2_FcFSU7XtcSfN7F mOtiMNSkcL1W3ErBgGbKWAtgE3zfpNq7kYB52N_wBPFHQjM8MEpKkzZLqzJh 6B3WYoX4slkbaRvEwkfJJdb8C0g_pwXbBiFr7fE6OpK4fGLMqkpZQPfejjyP bwToF6IaowAZYcahDaurScM_pTXTKwF0LkxTw0NznIfzSPy9wZlbJjqCeOYR T3T7RpAO0McESM.ab82rVwTHJxu3r506TI51.hBPlEW4v9gSCcZquY8fnEgG Tk2LiKxJ.VcttJes3JQBjlx6ZesT6zA9eJc1vftSaT0g32A1z0tWxXrKOxwu SmUnx8945AyK5xnBXPdSGjfpttPc4IXA3s2BO6Pr84xM.TP__II3xVQ.9mjG LQzuzXYekTVpLKrPGReFQJ5Nirvj_qUdYp69zTPKPKD9lS7lA749wLUZIwML B5D69TpWCRFt.JxZjf7u4.rL51B_Edff.rKIWNP.HW2oBrINo4ZB3Uw-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: pPvqnOaswBBbYZLVYFzvU7GaowLcbNioPp.aF8KvOjZk From: To: Grzegorz Junka Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:24:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2f23f3d0-dcb1-dc12-eb9f-c8966a10f5f7@toco-domains.de> <77c15a0a-fde0-b240-803e-b369ebf0b897@gjunka.com> In-Reply-To: <77c15a0a-fde0-b240-803e-b369ebf0b897@gjunka.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:26:09 -0000 [Default] On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 19:33:50 +0000, Grzegorz Junka wrote: >we could >start small with a just a handful of ports in a stable LTS (Long Term >Support) branch. Develop processes around maintaining them, get some >feedback about the effort of applying only security fixes, then add more >ports as required or as viable from the resources point of view. How >does that sound? It sounds excellent, at least to me. How many platform roles are seen as fbsd's metier? Firewall? Already handled. Specialist workstations such as sound/video editing? Maybe. I don't know enough about that to have an opinion. Servers. No question. That's always been freebsd's best thing. The number of ports to build a server-of-all-work is not large. Unnecessarily complex and a source of uncontrolled errors, yes, but not really *large* qua large.