Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 11:11:40 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches Message-ID: <20050524091140.GB10053@eddie.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <3528.172.16.0.199.1116884292.squirrel@172.16.0.1> 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> <3528.172.16.0.199.1116884292.squirrel@172.16.0.1>
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--CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2005.05.23 17:38:12 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > 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. >=20 > Right, i didnt think so. Debian is a volunteer project too, and their > packaging system supports all of their branches. But see how many branches they have to support - not many. It's quite a different question when you have new branches every < 6 months compared to when you have one every few years. > 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. Well, you always have the option to simply backport whatever fixes you want yourself. There are a good chance that most things will work for quite a while. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCku/Mh9pcDSc1mlERAlXkAKCYohg55CUCEwWeHr66HHy7zK96DwCgvhXh v+fT41oBu8SBrbDiIreK/TA= =EgFO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5--
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