Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 01:03:03 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, Colin, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches Message-ID: <20050524010303.45a1ca66@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20050523210818.GC823@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <3248.172.16.0.199.1116876092.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <4292323C.4080707@freebsd.org> <3467.172.16.0.199.1116881478.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <20050523210818.GC823@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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On Mon, 23 May 2005 23:08:18 +0200 "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> wrote: > On 2005.05.23 16:51:18 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > On Mon, May 23, 2005 3:42 pm, Colin Percival said: > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/security/ > > > > > > In addition to the material there (which is concerned with existing > > > releases), FreeBSD 5.x is expected to be supported until late 2007 > > > (FreeBSD 5.5 plus two > > > years), and FreeBSD 6.x will probably be supported until early 2009 (the > > > last FreeBSD 6.x release plus two years). > > > > Thanks for the info guys. Does this "security support" also mean that > > current ports will be compatible with the release? > > No, there are no guarantees about that. The ports/ people generally > try to make things work with older releases, but there are no > gurantees there. It's simply too much work to make such guarantees, > and this is after all an volunteer project (for most parts anyway). Not only work, but also a lack of resources; for example I just received a report from a 4.11 user regarding of of my ports that I'm unable to reproduce on my 5-STABLE and I don't have a 4.11 machine. In this case I strongly suspect a local problem, but if it is not I'll be forced to install a 4.11. Of course, is impossible to do this for all (supported branches x supported platforms), hence the "official" statement from http://www.freebsd.org/ports/. Before each release we have a "ports freeze" period when (almost) no update to the ports is made but our time is dedicated to make sure our ports work on that release. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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