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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:37:48PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Please be aware that FreeBSD 4.11 is no longer supported-- the ports  
> framework has been updated in a fashion which is no longer backwards  
> compatible with that version of the OS, so you're going to be rolling  
> your own software from here on out if you want to stay with that  
> version.

I have a FreeBSD 4.10-REL system here with a still-working ports system,
using the latest ports tree.  Judging from your comment above, this is
impossible, unless I've misunderstood you.

Should ports maintainers still be encouraged to support 4.x if it is not
a lot of trouble?  Recently I've sent mail to two port maintainers with
very minor patches to build ports on 4.x.

(I do intend to upgrade to 6.x at some stage, but not until a lot of
ports that I use start to fail to build, and there is no sign of that
happening yet :-)

Regards
Andrew