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From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
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Subject: Re: 3.5-STABLE packages...where?
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In-Reply-To: <20010619223911.L6448@leviathan.inethouston.net>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:39:11PM -0500
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:39:11PM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. (dwcjr@inethouston.net) wrote:
> > Are 3.x-STABLE packages gone for good?  "Ported software search"
> > continue to report many packages as being available for 3.x-STABLE,
> > yet none of the ftp servers even has a "3.x-stable" directory under
> > packages.
> > 
> > 3.5-RELEASE is available at many of those ftp servers, but the
> > 3.x-STABLE packages (post 3.5 Release) are not?  What gives?
>
> Look at bento.freebsd.org, I think it still builds 3.x packages, but 
> not 3.x isn't supported anymore so if you have any problems with them 
> you may or may not get any help on it.

No.  FreeBSD.org stopped supporting 3.x *entirely* a little while
ago, including packages and ports wise.  I think it happened as
soon as 4.3-RELEASE went out the door, which marked (almost) the
second anniversary of 3.2-RELEASE.  To have supported a branch
like 3.x for 2 1/2 years, is quite a blessing IMO.

-- 
wca

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