Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:05:45 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELEASE_X_Y_Z branches/tags maintained?? Message-ID: <20041025230545.GA93317@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410251656220.14978-100000@pancho> References: <1098697521.666.30.camel@moonlight> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410251656220.14978-100000@pancho>
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--wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 04:58:18PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Roman Kennke wrote: >=20 > > Maybe, if there is _enough_ interest, somebody (starting with me??) > > could start a separate (from FreeBSD) project, that aims to maintain a > > stable FreeBSD ports tree. >=20 > I'd rather try to talk you into helping out on our existing PRs :-) >=20 > Alternatively, if having a completely stable ports tree is a showstopper > for you, pkgsrc is supposed to run on FreeBSD. But as someone else has > noted, you're basically going to be doing a 100% reinstall to do that. Not to mention that if you go with a smaller project you risk not actually getting those updates in a timely manner anyway due to the aforementioned manpower problems. Kris --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBfYbIWry0BWjoQKURAnBEAJ45pMbhOlP4YS8i5YM1swiAjJI+vACeMVql AcCnGkdvlDUq20HSiXJX2C8= =P6zi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC--
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