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Date:      Sat, 2 Aug 1997 19:22:26 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Penisoara Adrian <ady@warp.starnets.ro>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970802191206.5218A-100000@ady.warp.starnets.ro>
In-Reply-To: <199708021013.TAA09852@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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Hi,

On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> Ports should have less (or no) "official" support on -current.  If you
> are running -current, you should be able to take care of yourself.

  Well, what about folks running 3.0-current for SMP reasons and that have
not so much ideea about UN*X/FreeBSD hacking ? By chance it happens that
myself too I am in the same position...

> Naturally, merging fixes to help them run on -current is desirable, as
> it will make the cutover at the next major upgrade easier.

  Not only that, the ports should be buildable on every version of
FreeBSD, if possible; it comes to my mind something like GNU's autoconfig
scripts...
  I'd really like to see *one* single ports tree, buildable on every
FreeBSD version; this might be hard, I know, but I think it well worths
working on it.

  Ady (@warp.starnets.ro)




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