From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 10:09:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E1C106566C for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:09:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daniel@digsys.bg) Received: from smtp-sofia.digsys.bg (smtp-sofia.digsys.bg [193.68.3.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 000668FC1A for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:09:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dcave.digsys.bg (dcave.digsys.bg [192.92.129.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-sofia.digsys.bg (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q54A92PM034351 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 13:09:05 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from daniel@digsys.bg) Message-ID: <4FCC893E.2000309@digsys.bg> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:09:02 +0300 From: Daniel Kalchev User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120528 Thunderbird/10.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <95D35900-AC63-4948-B54F-40041FFCB232@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20120602195022.GG5335@home.opsec.eu> <2683532.ZXZgRCPEVi@x220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <2683532.ZXZgRCPEVi@x220.ovitrap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:09:09 -0000 On 03.06.12 07:24, Erich wrote: > > isn't this what I just suggested to be done by the team? Give the ports tree a new version number and people can fall back to this then. > > Isn't this solution too simple to be done? As was mentioned earlier in this discussion, by virtue of the ports tree being hosted on CVS, you are able to get a version of the ports there at any date you chose. Just set PORTS_DATE="date=2012.06.01.00.00.00" to get the ports tree as it was on midnight 1st of June 2012. You can specify hours, minutes, seconds if you need. Way more powerful than any "version number" thing. As you can see, this is already available with FreeBSD. A lot more "hidden gems" are available with FreeBSD. People are just lazy and for the most part, refuse to learn. This is one aspect FreeBSD could benefit greatly from more education of the 'users' -- just because it has way more hidden gems than anything else around. Daniel