Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 18:08:54 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussing ideas or wish list Message-ID: <5203D0A6.3090705@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1375976213.30908.7565131.6911282E@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1375973693.6986.YahooMailNeo@web193502.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> <1375976061.30215.7553799.0E22B6D0@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1375976213.30908.7565131.6911282E@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --8FnU2O5kLnGoSahTTJf5waEHSMVVCRb3X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 08/08/2013 16:36, Mark Felder wrote: > 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 th= e >> upgrade to FreeBSD 10.x. >> >=20 > Note this isn't set in stone. Watch the Roadmap on this page: >=20 > https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng/CharterAndRoadMap Actually, that RoadMap is in dire need of updating. The OS release schedule got reworked after the RoadMap was written and the security incident and the consequent necessity of completely redesigning and rebuilding the pkgng package building system has added various delays too= =2E Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk --8FnU2O5kLnGoSahTTJf5waEHSMVVCRb3X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlID0KYACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyHzwCfaK2Ik3d9cYLf6/Nz/qcBY1kr zaoAnjzOVurS6bYHfBERBFUfTF8PlR4q =cUqo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8FnU2O5kLnGoSahTTJf5waEHSMVVCRb3X--
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