From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 18:34:30 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96E79D5F; Wed, 3 Sep 2014 18:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb:1::3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A69D117D; Wed, 3 Sep 2014 18:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb:1::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DAD356A6027; Wed, 3 Sep 2014 20:34:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s83IYQtx016736; Wed, 3 Sep 2014 20:34:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lars@e-new.0x20.net) Received: (from lars@localhost) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id s83IYNWm015273; Wed, 3 Sep 2014 20:34:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lars) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 20:34:23 +0200 From: Lars Engels To: Michelle Sullivan Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool Message-ID: <20140903183422.GF57121@e-new.0x20.net> References: <54052DFA.4030808@freebsd.org> <54053372.6020009@my.hennepintech.edu> <5405890F.8080804@freebsd.org> <20140902125256.Horde.uv31ztwymThxUZ-OYPQoBw1@webmail.df.eu> <5405AE54.60809@sorbs.net> <5407276D.3050200@sorbs.net> <9DAF63F1F61E0FC2F6B237BD@ogg.in.absolight.net> <5407311C.5070903@sorbs.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kb0TSCuX821Ar6UT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5407311C.5070903@sorbs.net> X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 X-Operation-System: FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p4 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, pkg@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Mathieu Arnold X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:34:30 -0000 --kb0TSCuX821Ar6UT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 05:17:48PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > +--On 3 septembre 2014 16:36:29 +0200 Michelle Sullivan > > wrote: > > | Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > |> I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean, it's *En= d Of > > |> Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more. > > |>=20 > > |> =20 > > | Ahh so all those Windows XP servers are dead and don't work anymore... > > > > Not at all, but you don't update them any more. > > > > =20 > Actually you do, but it does nothing... just like freebsd-update on any > EOL release... >=20 > Microsoft didn't release a patch that would change the base system so > you can no longer install any software... They just stopped providing > updates, then later stopped providing security updates. Same for FreeBSD and pkg_*. Stay with status quo, use pkg_* with the last tagged version of the ports tree that works with pkg_* or switch to pkg and be happy like the rest of us. --kb0TSCuX821Ar6UT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJUB18uXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ4RjQwMDE3RTRERjUzMTI1N0FGRTUxNDlF NTRDQjM3RDNBMDg5RDZEAAoJEOVMs306CJ1tabsIAJ4weLg9YkfoV0bYtgERt7OY MrjOmHOsUZpeZ+7AN4FuTgDHXr1ilhC9rrp3tYdsKYRrUjJZZAaaHYS36fmJbFfU fvHrMVJ+v/RD0untC6rS/uBIrYxBsSG8xUtlTNlFeOuiXgFYEHxF1drTCt9SkK2w +X6XTOms5ynCNZIYG+UnX86a0yV63Emy8XDpDGtEYAaQcm7B5M3RAUzIrxz1YcaD mNDHPz8ow2cnSrZ61dT3akPqxJXdlYtRonDRKu2+3nrmqytq0gU160yMuY5Ewdmu j9ZpcEXPjfge8GvRAjRUvScSB1OxdpB4agcOX+G9ZQwdaJeJMaLWsxaTe/+3Tls= =jMHl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kb0TSCuX821Ar6UT--