From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 8 15:36:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED4C9288 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2013 15:36:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (out2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1B4D2CB6 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2013 15:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA37B20FF8 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2013 11:36:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:36:54 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:in-reply-to:references :subject:date; s=smtpout; bh=6zAsQ7LmvSIkuhgkrnUOGiRwaAk=; b=DJw XVRUo+GW6OqpI8GSK2Gng3GxGSD/IdUk2/bu5GFfei7JvoZBlPXj8t0Uq0YY+XCS 74AdCrkjgZd+PBBxfMzUfaBDASrHzcscL9ttx5o3woPR7/Vserua7tSnir5F2pim 9J7EM8ccAlX0kH8lNSFEH/pX+WOEpS2fE3g8zftY= Received: by web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id E82DAB022F1; Thu, 8 Aug 2013 11:36:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1375976213.30908.7565131.6911282E@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: 2I43P9tKd++nQI1QUCEdYX2U/Lt0eYKtalGK/Mk7xog+ 1375976213 From: Mark Felder To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-d9f253bf In-Reply-To: <1375976061.30215.7553799.0E22B6D0@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1375973693.6986.YahooMailNeo@web193502.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> <1375976061.30215.7553799.0E22B6D0@webmail.messagingengine.com> Subject: Re: Discussing ideas or wish list Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 10:36:53 -0500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 15:36:57 -0000 On Thu, Aug 8, 2013, at 10:34, Mark Felder wrote: > After the EoL of FreeBSD 8 (estimated June 30, 2015) the old package > tools are scheduled to be removed from FreeBSD. This change will be > MFC'd back to 9-STABLE and the release at that time (perhaps > 9.4-RELEASE?) will not have the old pkg_* tools. This seems a bit odd to > happen in the middle of a series because of POLA, but we can't support > the old package tools forever and FreeBSD 9.1-9.3 will have given you > plenty of opportunity to migrate to the new package format and ease the > upgrade to FreeBSD 10.x. > Note this isn't set in stone. Watch the Roadmap on this page: https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng/CharterAndRoadMap