Date: 03 Mar 2001 12:29:36 -0800 From: asami@clickarray.com (Satoshi Asami) To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support Message-ID: <yfkofvi8ukv.fsf@vader.clickarray.com> In-Reply-To: <20010223123030.E1899@ringworld.oblivion.bg> (Peter Pentchev's message of "Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:30:30 %2B0200") References: <200102230817.f1N8HN506575@vader.clickarray.com> <3A963091.8058B7D@FreeBSD.org> <20010223123030.E1899@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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Hi everyone,
Sorry for the delay. Due to a disk problem on bento (thanks Peter
Wemm for fixing it!), the package build took much longer than
expected. The latest and final 3-stable packgaes are up for ftp now.
* From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
* On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:42:41AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
* > Satoshi Asami wrote:
* >
* > > Hi all,
* > >
* > > As you may all know, the 3-stable branch has slowly being phased out
* > > for a while now. This is true for both the tree itself and the ports
* > > collection; fewer and fewer ports committers have 3-stable machines to
* > > test with, and the list of build errors kept growing little by little.
* > >
* > > Thus, I have decided to stop building 3-stable packages. The next run
* > > which starts in a few hours will be the last one for 3-stable. Of
* > > course, this last set of packages will be left on ftp.FreeBSD.org for
* > > a long time, just like the last set of 2.2.* packages.
* > >
* > > Thanks for your help. We can now concentrate all our resources on
* > > only two branches. (For a while anyway. ;)
* >
* > Cool. Please indicate when you have last run completed, so we can start
* > removing 3-stable specific hacks from ports (FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS, USE_NEWGCC,
* > etc).
*
* Hmm.. I don't really think Satoshi meant we are completely stopping support
* for 3.x in the Ports collection; just packages for the present.
Actually I meant something in between. The policy will be similar to
what we had at the end of 2.2-stable support.
(1) No packages will be build for 3-stable anymore. The last set just
put up for ftp will remain there as a last snapshot for a long time.
(2) Whatever there is in bsd.port.mk to support 3-stable will remain
there for at least a few months.
(3) Porters are no longer required to test port builds on 3-stable.
In particular, new ports do not need any consideration for
3-stable builds.
(4) As a corollary of 2 and 3, when updating existing ports, porters
will have an option of removing 3-stable support.
The idea is to give 3-stable users a fighting chance to use the latest
ports while not burdening the porters with any extra work for 3-stable
support.
Hope this clears it up.
-PW
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