Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 18:39:57 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: old ports/packages Message-ID: <03cc4012-026e-c007-09e1-ee45524f1b95@elischer.org>
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Hi guys, ok so I see: 2014-04-30 ports-mgmt/pkg_install: Replaced by ports-mgmt/pkg So now how do enterprises maintaining appliances etc. generate packages for old systems? (yeah I know about chroot/jails etc.) but we have it embedded into several workflows that deliver stuff that is not 'regular packages'. pkg_install is still available in 10.x, but when we move to 11 (we will lose that). Can we please have a port made of the last pkg_install from the 10 branch so that it is still available when we move to 10? There WAS such a port but it was removed for some odd reason around the same time it was removed from -current. (By rene) The standard procedure for removing something from base usually includes making sure it is still available in ports. Removing it from ports at the same time is a pretty bad breakage of POLA. It is true that new machines will not need it but not all the world is a new machine.
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