Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:46:54 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Paul Allen <pallen@ugcs.caltech.edu> Cc: Jason Stone <freebsd-security@dfmm.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, security-officer@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon Message-ID: <20061011224653.GA24829@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20061011223610.GA30707@riyal.ugcs.caltech.edu> References: <451F6E8E.8020301@freebsd.org> <20061011102106.GY1594@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20061011151458.L97038@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20061011083021.C2780@treehorn.dfmm.org> <452D6CFD.4040905@FreeBSD.org> <20061011223610.GA30707@riyal.ugcs.caltech.edu>
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--ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:36:10PM -0700, Paul Allen wrote: > Well, I suspect that most people with the resources to do what you ask > have already moved on precisely because the EoL has been published. > i.e., faced with that limited commitment, we had no choice but to > (grudgingly and at the last minute) move on. >=20 > I think the most likely path of success is, as you say, to make the 4.x > userland more like 6.x. >=20 > Without some prior commitment of project resources though, this > is unlikely to fly with anyone. >=20 > e.g., an agreement to EoL of 5.x and do port-cluster builds of=20 > a gcc 3.x variant of the 4.x kernel series. >=20 > I recall that this was done in Dragonfly for a while. The 4.x support policy was announced some time ago and may be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/policies_releng_4.html We are not interested in increasing the level of support beyond this. In particular 4.x package builds will stop on 31 Jan 2007. Kris --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFLXRdWry0BWjoQKURAlehAKD5AfxEDut0PFwh4hvikTpTwXlNXwCgywGA 3rJDZTXJKJcEnnE3mx+x8eM= =Mdkb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q--
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