From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 13:23:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C91E716A40F; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:23:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC51E13C44B; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:23:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 4B6CF640; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:59:16 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:59:16 -0600 To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20061223125916.GA30648@soaustin.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Cc: Peter Jeremy , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: linimon@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:23:17 -0000 On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 06:45:04AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > (2) The ports team will no longer work really hard (tm) to keep ports > working there. They will keep building packages, etc. To clarify, we will be building 4.X packages as time and resources permit. Fixing problems that show up there will no longer be a high priority. As a reminder, the ports tree is not branched, so any changes to update a port will also affect 4.X, whether or not these changes are "improvements" with respect to it. As a point of curiosity, I would like to hear from some of the people in this thread who will continue to run 4.11 or 4-STABLE for a while, to find out what ports they are relying on. A note about whether you consider security updates to be a critical issue would be interesting. I will summarize to the list. Note: I am only interested in the data for machines used as servers. Workstation users only have one real choice: to upgrade to 5.5 or 6.1/6.2. Since the GNOME team no longer supports 4.X, and most desktop environments wind up using some part of GNOME, using 4.X as a desktop is no longer supported. mcl