From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Jun 4 13:50:51 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 D32FFB69180 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 13:50:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Received: from msa1.earth.yoonka.com (yoonka.com [185.24.122.233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "msa1.earth.yoonka.com", Issuer "msa1.earth.yoonka.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 772451093 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 13:50:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Received: from crayon2.yoonka.com (crayon2.yoonka.com [192.168.1.20]) (authenticated bits=0) by msa1.earth.yoonka.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id u54Doh4a005072 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 13:50:43 GMT (envelope-from list1@gjunka.com) Subject: Re: old ports/packages To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <03cc4012-026e-c007-09e1-ee45524f1b95@elischer.org> <1FAFDF989841D03604BB448B@atuin.in.mat.cc> <7b8d22c6-1fed-d517-9f89-693b88dfc358@freebsd.org> <20160504070341.GV740@mail0.byshenk.net> <3dfd6fea-da32-b922-65d1-f64b8e113112@toco-domains.de> <6e340f95-6d10-4991-0cd6-95d336e2f044@gjunka.com> <3e55c7d8-801c-a2b3-e92e-9945e896142b@toco-domains.de> <5809f808-8b16-93ed-5351-828a7d68eb2b@unsane.co.uk> <574ED144.1050603@quip.cz> <9D785F08-AB0B-4324-B1B3-286D90AF9BF7@lastsummer.de> <20160603172313.3b2353b0@raksha.tavi.co.uk> From: Grzegorz Junka Message-ID: Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 13:50:43 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: 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: Sat, 04 Jun 2016 13:50:51 -0000 On 04/06/2016 13:45, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 03/06/2016 17:23, Bob Eager wrote: >> Why not just use odd numbered releases? That's what I do. They have a >> longer support cycle. > Remember though that this model is changing with 11.0 release. With the > new model, it's the 11.x family as a whole that has the long term > support and individual releases such as 11.0 or 11.1 will cease to be > supported very shortly after the next release in that series comes out. > The last release in that series will then have a long support life so > that 11.x as a whole has something like a 5 year lifecycle[*]. The > transitions from 11.0 -> 11.1 -> 11.2 -> ... are meant to be something > you could apply pretty much routinely; much as you'ld apply a new > patch-level today. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > [*] which is pretty much the same length as the the lifecycle of > previous major branches has been up to now. > Is there somewhere any more information available about this change? Cheers Greg