From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 20 19:32:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453E916A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:32:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zaphod.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D365843D45 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:32:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simon@zaphod.nitro.dk) Received: by zaphod.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 3000) id 82F8012108; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:32:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:32:02 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Bjorn Konig Message-ID: <20050220193201.GK856@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <20050220182014.66D21CCE6C4@mail.alpha-tierchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6THr7QwYWIbrk6Kt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050220182014.66D21CCE6C4@mail.alpha-tierchen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add for 5.2.1 no longer working... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:32:04 -0000 --6THr7QwYWIbrk6Kt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2005.02.20 19:20:56 +0100, Bjorn Konig wrote: > Mark Linimon wrote: >=20 > > 5.2.1 was a special case: as has been pointed out, a 'new technology' > > release. 5.3 is the first stable release on 5.X. 5.2.1 was > > always intended to have a short support life. In fact, it >=20 > > was intended to have a short development life, as well, but > > that failed due to it winding up with too many features in it. >=20 > First I thought the same, but this doesn't explain why 4.x > releases won't supported longer than older 5.x releases > concerning package availability. It's quite simple: Most mirror sites have limited space, so with many different architectures which causes each release to take up a lot of space, there are only room to store so many releases on the mirrors. So each time a new release is made, an older one has to be removed =66rom the mirrors (more or less). Other than that, it's generally a really bad idea to use old packages since there are very likely to be security problems in them. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --6THr7QwYWIbrk6Kt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCGOWxh9pcDSc1mlERAgMUAKC12F9/h1fv2Z9tr/YeNhtjr6L8ygCgruUE LdCjk+q/OoiuUEux9BkqBiQ= =vZdW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6THr7QwYWIbrk6Kt--