Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 16:52:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Erich <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>, Chris Nehren <apeiron+freebsd-stable@isuckatdomains.net> Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD? Message-ID: <201206051452.q55Eq80T059094@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20120604051919.GC32597@lonesome.com>
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Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > The current status is that we support 8.x and 9.x well. Ports support > for 7.x is starting to fade over time as new upstream releases rely > on newer APIs. 6.x went EOL 11/30/2010 and we no longer claim to > support it in ports. FWIW ... In fact, I can confirm that the ports don't support 6.x anymore since last week. :-) # cd /usr/ports/dns/bind96 # make No closing parenthesis in archive specification "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 177: Error in archive specification: "WITH_" No closing parenthesis in archive specification "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 177: Error in archive specification: "WITH_" make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good." -- Bertrand Meyer
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