From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 10 16: 7:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9115E37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postfix2-2.free.fr (postfix2-2.free.fr [213.228.0.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E3443E31 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:07:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-6-62-147-149-102.dial.proxad.net [62.147.149.102]) by postfix2-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6346D5F9CC for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:07:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 1560 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Jul 2002 23:07:10 -0000 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:07:10 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev , Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system wishlist Message-ID: <20020710230709.GA1512@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20020710210509.GA686@lpt.ens.fr> <3D2CA535.EC11BDA1@mindspring.com> <20020710213619.GA882@lpt.ens.fr> <3D2CBAC4.6AC3CAC9@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D2CBAC4.6AC3CAC9@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [moved to -chat] Terry Lambert wrote: > "The most recent updates" are only appropriate if I am keeping my > base OS version updated as well. I don't want to have to do that. > I want to install a version that works and never update it ever > again, except for security patches, until I have to face the 2038 > UNIX 32 bit seconds rollover problem. > > We Fear Change(tm). [snip] > I am refusing to go from 4.x to 5.x; or from 4.4 to 4.6. Whichever. > The important part is my refusal to change for the sake of change. Then you'd have to convince the FreeBSD security people to issue fixes for all branches, back to 1.0 or earlier, no? (Equivalently, to support version 4.4 until the year 2038.) I still don't see your argument for packaging components of the base system. A binary from FreeBSD 7.3 in 2006 is unlikely to work on your FreeBSD 4.4 system. Microsoft did support Windows 95 for a long time, but they have a rather less aggressive release schedule. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message