Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:04:54 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 4.x is no longer supported by the ports collection Message-ID: <op.tm1uugbt9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20070201005148.GA24178@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070201005148.GA24178@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:51:49 -0600, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > As previously announced, FreeBSD 4.x has now reached its end of life > and is no longer supported in the ports collection (or by the security > officer for security fixes). > > I have tagged the ports collection with the RELEASE_4_EOL tag to > provide a "last known good" tree as a convenience to those remaining > users who intend to self-support their own 4.x installations. > > I will also be starting one final 4.x package build against this tag > for upload to the FTP servers; after this no further 4.x package > builds are planned. > > Now that 4.x is unsupported we will begin to remove the legacy support > code that has been accumulating for the past 7+ years and complicating > certain aspects of the ports tree. This means that in the near future > the ports tree will definitely become broken on 4.x and older systems. > > Therefore maintainers are also no longer required to provide any form > of support for running their ports on FreeBSD 4.x, and may also remove > any legacy support code at their convenience. Yay! I think, someone should add in the UPDATING about that we no longer support FreeBSD 4.x? Cheers, Mezz > RIP FreeBSD 4.x, you have served us well! > > Kris -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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