From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 1 03:48:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4D516A401 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 03:48:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from centrmmtao03.cox.net (centrmmtao03.cox.net [70.168.83.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A490513C4A6 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 03:48:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by centrmmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.03 201-2131-130-104-20060516) with ESMTP id <20070201030259.SVDO24316.centrmmtao01.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:02:59 -0500 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id J32y1W00j4iy4EG0000000; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:02:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:04:54 -0600 To: "Kris Kennaway" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20070201005148.GA24178@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070201005148.GA24178@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.10 (Linux) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 4.x is no longer supported by the ports collection X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:48:07 -0000 On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:51:49 -0600, Kris Kennaway wrote: > As previously announced, FreeBSD 4.x has now reached its end of life > and is no longer supported in the ports collection (or by the security > officer for security fixes). > > I have tagged the ports collection with the RELEASE_4_EOL tag to > provide a "last known good" tree as a convenience to those remaining > users who intend to self-support their own 4.x installations. > > I will also be starting one final 4.x package build against this tag > for upload to the FTP servers; after this no further 4.x package > builds are planned. > > Now that 4.x is unsupported we will begin to remove the legacy support > code that has been accumulating for the past 7+ years and complicating > certain aspects of the ports tree. This means that in the near future > the ports tree will definitely become broken on 4.x and older systems. > > Therefore maintainers are also no longer required to provide any form > of support for running their ports on FreeBSD 4.x, and may also remove > any legacy support code at their convenience. Yay! I think, someone should add in the UPDATING about that we no longer support FreeBSD 4.x? Cheers, Mezz > RIP FreeBSD 4.x, you have served us well! > > Kris -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org