Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 05:30:08 +0200 From: Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> To: Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> Cc: pkg@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>, stable@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool Message-ID: <540539C0.7010008@sorbs.net> In-Reply-To: <540538C6.8050505@my.hennepintech.edu> References: <20140901195520.GB77917@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54050D07.4010404@sorbs.net> <CAOFF%2BZ1MOr9-rYbwHYWqBKjMvRPwUnew4jThEoJ_WkoTmwyNsQ@mail.gmail.com> <540522A3.9050506@sorbs.net> <54052891.5000104@my.hennepintech.edu> <54052B1D.3040607@sorbs.net> <54053363.2030606@my.hennepintech.edu> <540534D3.603@sorbs.net> <540538C6.8050505@my.hennepintech.edu>
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Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2014.09.01 22:09, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > >> That's my point - there was a patch waiting to submit that knowingly >> broke pkg_install at midnight on the day after the EOL... the EOL >> shouldn't be an EOL - because it was really a 'portsnap after this date >> before you upgrade and you're screwed it won't work any more at all...' >> > As Peter outlined, this EOL was announced long ago, and it was mentioned at > least once that it was to allow breaking changes. There really would be no > reason to drop support for it in the ports tree if there were no plans to make > changes. > The point is the EOL was not an EOL, it was a deadline, either switch or you're screwed, and it was communicated as an EOL not as a "here's a deadline, switch or you're screwed" -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/
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