From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 19 9:29:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D2C152DD for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:29:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@cheddar.netmonger.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26380; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:29:27 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20000119122927.A25745@netmonger.net> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:29:27 -0500 From: Christopher Masto To: damieon , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Neat little DPT utils... Mail-Followup-To: damieon , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from damieon on Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 09:48:33AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 09:48:33AM -0600, damieon wrote: > I was taking a look through the list archives, and it seems that > this issue has come up before, I found that someone had decided that it > was looking for depends that are in FreeBSD 2 or something. Are there Unfortunately, we currently have a regression problem in FreeBSD. Newer releases tend to drop support for things that have no active maintainer (or a maintainer who is too worn out by continually rewriting his or her software to cope with changed interfaces). Another unfortunate side effect of this is that some developers base their work on older releases rather than chase the moving target of -current. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message