From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 23 01:13:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA04821 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 01:13:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA04812 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 01:12:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA19363; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 02:12:15 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199901230912.CAA19363@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: end of 2.2-stable support and the future of ports In-Reply-To: from attila at "Jan 23, 99 04:31:49 am" To: attila@hun.org Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 02:12:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com, gabor@acm.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, attila wrote: > > why dont you purchase the 2.2.8 final distribution set from > WC-CDROM --it has all that speak off according to the > announcements that 2.2.8 was a frozen point in time and all > changes were made to 3_0-RELEASE --> CURRENT? for the few > changes added after the CD, pick up the diffs by using first > the CD and then cvsup; the log files in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/... > will give you the delta list. Been there. My web and ftp server is at 2.1-STABLE (built from the 2.1.7 CD set). I bought several copies of 2.1.7, because I expected to run it for some time. Unfortunately, not all the distfiles are on the CDs, and the last time I went looking for one on the net, it was a long search. I finally wound up back-porting something from the 2.2 tree. I now own two copies of the 2.2.8 set. But we've still the issue about having every distfile for every port, when two years down the road I want to build ... -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message