From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 31 07:09:23 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB186C2B for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:09:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) Received: from vps.rulingia.com (host-122-100-2-194.octopus.com.au [122.100.2.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2737924D7 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.rulingia.com (c220-239-250-249.belrs5.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.250.249]) by vps.rulingia.com (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r9V6tLb0032091 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:55:22 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.rulingia.com (localhost.rulingia.com [127.0.0.1]) by server.rulingia.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r9V6tFXm014873 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:55:15 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.rulingia.com) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.rulingia.com (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id r9V6tF94014872; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:55:15 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:55:15 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: Zaphod Beeblebrox Subject: Re: Two interesting things that broke in the package system while I wasn't looking. Message-ID: <20131031065515.GC14468@server.rulingia.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://www.rulingia.com/keys/peter.pgp User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: FreeBSD Hackers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:09:23 -0000 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2013-Oct-30 14:34:20 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >Recently, I have encountered a hassle with a bunch of 7.2 machines that >need upgrading. Two things, really, that are broken. I realize that 7.2 >isn't supported... but these two things are errors that don't need to be >errors --- it's just sloppy. It's not "sloppy". "Not supported" means "not supported": Once a release isn't supported, developers don't need to worry about compatability with that release (and existing compatibility code is likely to be ripped out to reduce the maintenance effort). 7.2 has not been supported for more than 3 years and the last 7.x release went EoL 8 months ago. No-one is going to stop you running 7.x but you won't be able to use a current ports tree or current packages on it. --=20 Peter Jeremy --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (FreeBSD) iKYEARECAGYFAlJx/tNfFIAAAAAALgAoaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDBCRjc3QTcyNTg5NEVCRTY0RjREN0VFRUZF OEE0N0JGRjAwRkI4ODcACgkQ/opHv/APuIcQbACggjp+ZQZsZE3AZ3wNzr6griAI rG0An0NprtJrn5HKQGhsRs4chPiq/jEe =WUrZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--