From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 16:33:55 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E3186399 for ; Fri, 9 May 2014 16:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp1.multiplay.co.uk (smtp1.multiplay.co.uk [85.236.96.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A692590C for ; Fri, 9 May 2014 16:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp1.multiplay.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 7FD5820E7088B; Fri, 9 May 2014 16:33:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.multiplay.co.uk X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.9 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,DOS_OE_TO_MX, FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1,HELO_NO_DOMAIN,RDNS_DYNAMIC,STOX_REPLY_TYPE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from r2d2 (82-69-141-170.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.141.170]) by smtp1.multiplay.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FCF420E70885; Fri, 9 May 2014 16:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: From: "Steven Hartland" To: "Big Lebowski" References: <495738D66545411BA78B31A6615EFA48@multiplay.co.uk> Subject: Re: Unable to use ports on 8.3 or earlier since r352986 Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 17:33:40 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Cc: "ports@FreeBSD.org Ports" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 16:33:56 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Big Lebowski" > Well, the EoL was announced in January, and it is what its name is: end of > life. There have been changes waiting to happen just for the 8.3 to go > away, so when the day was reached, they've been applied. This doesnt seem > very bad, but instead, just about time, since there was no reason to hold > them off any longer. In an ideal world everyone would have migrated off, but its not an ideal world so being friendly to our users and not breaking everything in ports at the first available opportunity would be nice. Users may well be quite happy to port the small number of OS security fixes until they have completed their upgrades, I know thats something we plan to do here. Ports on the other hand is a different matter, as the number of fixes / changes is much higher so makes it impractical. >From what I've read there doesn't seem to be a must have reason for this change, if this is indeed the case is there any reason not to consider users? One example that springs to mind is the release version of pfsense is still 8.3 so being to still compile updated ports with fixes for that is very useful. Regards Steve