From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 10 8:42:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B134314C57; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:42:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA12726; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 03:12:26 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991110114152.24208@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:41:52 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Adam Szilveszter Cc: Cheryl Offholter , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports Software Collection Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <405DA8262B13D311BE2900A0C9D18456035090@MDM_STL03> <19991110105711.45268@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991110172704.A19927@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19991110172704.A19927@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from Christoph Kukulies on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 05:27:04PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at 17:37:08 +0100, Adam Szilveszter wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at 9:39:14 -0600, Cheryl Offholter wrote: >>> Is it correct to assume that the FREEBSD PORTS SOFTWARE COLLECTION is also >>> completely compliant in addition to the operating system? Please advise. >> >> Sorry, I don't understand the question. What do you mean by >> "compliant"? > > I think the post referred to Y2K compliance... however I do not think we > can answer this one. The ports collection is merely a convenient way to > add third-party software to your installation. Therefore the guys doing > the porting focus on making these to compile, install and work in a nice > way but certainly they are in no way authors of these pieces of software. > It is only the original author who can give info on this. Correct. Cheryl replied privately referring to a statement by David Greenman about FreeBSD. I explained that the ports aren't under our control, and that we can't make much of a statement about them (though I did venture an opinion that we won't see much trouble with them). I'm copying -ports on this, since they're interested parties. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message