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Date:      Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:41:39 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Marko Kuntic <mkuntic@mioc.hr>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: linux_base-debian - going to 3.1?
Message-ID:  <20060408184139.GA36382@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060408180720.GA35691@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20060408122030.Y82617@zagreb.mioc.hr> <20060408182538.41c59637@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20060408180720.GA35691@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 02:07:20PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:25:38PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Am Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:22:11 +0200 (CEST)
> > schrieb Marko Kuntic <mkuntic@mioc.hr>:
> >=20
> > > Hello,
> > >=20
> > > Are there any plans for upgrading the FreeBSD port of Debian Linux up=
 to its=20
> > > stable release (3.1) in the near future (like in time for the release=
 of=20
> > > FreeBSD 6.1)?
> >=20
> > Very unlikely. The default linux_base is linux_base-8. Everything is
> > supposed to work with the default one. If it's doesn't break with
> > another linux base port, then you are free to feel lucky (there are
> > known bugs in non-default linux ports, the old maintainer wasn't
> > willing to fix them and insisted that the default linux base port is
> > changed to fit his style, ATM those non-default linux base ports are
> > unmaintained).
> >=20
> > Some people are working on updating the default linux base to fc3. But
> > this will not happen before the release. We're holding back some
> > commits until the release is out of the door, since those commits would
> > change too much before the release.
> >=20
> > Feel free to submit an update for the debian based linux base port, but
> > even if you do it *now* it will most likely not be available in the
> > release.
>=20
> Definitely not; the package builds were complete and "carved in stone"
> some weeks ago.
>=20
> What you say is correct though; the port is unlikely to be updated
> (and in fact is going to be scheduled for removal since it doesn't
> build properly) unless an interested user such as yourself takes it in
> hand.

By "yourself" I meant Marko.

Kris

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