From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 11 11:45:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7665106564A for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:45:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from post1.inband.network-i.net (tobago.network-i.net [212.21.96.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 404578FC15 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 68850 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2011 11:39:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.1.188?) (212.21.99.52) by post2.inband.network-i.net with SMTP; 11 Aug 2011 11:39:54 -0000 Message-ID: <4E43C0D3.6040105@thingy.com> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:45:23 +0100 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <55A74C53CF85244A8000286B9B0313FE19534CB154@SCHOENTB1EXMB02.ap.ds.army.mil> <46F365E4DFD3421A4869B342@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:45:23 -0000 On 11/08/2011 12:37, Daniel Staal wrote: > > (Well, ok, given the current release structure having an update today > means you are in a supported branch, and that supported branch will > continue to get updates for the foreseeable future. But that still > does not tell me when the branch is likely to get unsupported, and in > theory a patch release could be made on the last day of support for a > branch.) A simple solution would be for there to ALWAYS be a patch release on the last day of support for a branch, that creates /etc/NOT-SUPPORTED or similar. Then it's just a matter of adding an /etc/cron.daily job to report on that, as long as you are following updates (and if you aren't you don't care about this issue). I can't think of any other OS that does this, either - they generally just report that there are no available updates. Howie