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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:52:17 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 193106] New-port: emulators/linux_base-f20 : Add a port with the base libraries for Fedora 20.
Message-ID:  <bug-193106-4077-HPquyPibPT@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |tijl@FreeBSD.org
         Resolution|---                         |Rejected
             Status|In Progress                 |Closed

--- Comment #32 from Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> ---
Closing as rejected.  The problem is that Fedora doesn't support older rele=
ases
with security updates long enough.  If we add a Fedora release to the ports
tree then at some point it will have to be removed again and that never goes
without complaints.  Users of older versions of FreeBSD may not be able to
update to a newer Fedora release because their kernel lacks new Linux featu=
res
that the new Fedora release needs.  Or worse, there's no FreeBSD release th=
at
can run the new Fedora release.  It happened with the f10 ports.

If people want more recent versions of some Linux packages then rather than
trying to track Fedora it would be better to work on ports tree infrastruct=
ure
that allows us to build our own Linux packages.

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