Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:43:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system wishlist Message-ID: <3D2CC6A9.EB0F7995@mindspring.com> References: <20020710210509.GA686@lpt.ens.fr> <3D2CA535.EC11BDA1@mindspring.com> <20020710213619.GA882@lpt.ens.fr> <3D2CBAC4.6AC3CAC9@mindspring.com> <20020710230709.GA1512@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > I am refusing to go from 4.x to 5.x; or from 4.4 to 4.6. Whichever. > > The important part is my refusal to change for the sake of change. > > Then you'd have to convince the FreeBSD security people to issue fixes > for all branches, back to 1.0 or earlier, no? (Equivalently, to > support version 4.4 until the year 2038.) I still don't see your > argument for packaging components of the base system. A binary from > FreeBSD 7.3 in 2006 is unlikely to work on your FreeBSD 4.4 system. > > Microsoft did support Windows 95 for a long time, but they have a > rather less aggressive release schedule. No, all I'd have to convince them to do is release fixes for the varios packages. I can install a different OpenSSH in my system, if OpenSSH is just another component. All I have to care about is binary backward compatability, and that's taken care of by the dependency tracking. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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