Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 17:38:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches Message-ID: <3528.172.16.0.199.1116884292.squirrel@172.16.0.1> In-Reply-To: <20050523210818.GC823@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <3248.172.16.0.199.1116876092.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <4292323C.4080707@freebsd.org> <3467.172.16.0.199.1116881478.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <20050523210818.GC823@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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On Mon, May 23, 2005 5:08 pm, Simon L. Nielsen said: > On 2005.05.23 16:51:18 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: >> >> Thanks for the info guys. Does this "security support" also mean that >> current ports will be compatible with the release? > > No, there are no guarantees about that. The ports/ people generally > try to make things work with older releases, but there are no gurantees > there. It's simply too much work to make such guarantees, and this is > after all an volunteer project (for most parts anyway). See also > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ for the "official" statement. Right, i didnt think so. Debian is a volunteer project too, and their packaging system supports all of their branches. I guess i should look into rolling my own packages, to be sure. And yes, i realize that we just dont have an infrastructure for something like this.
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