From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 23 2:32:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82EA137B4EC for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:32:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 7810 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Feb 2001 10:30:30 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:30:30 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Satoshi Asami , ports@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support Message-ID: <20010223123030.E1899@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Maxim Sobolev , Satoshi Asami , ports@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org References: <200102230817.f1N8HN506575@vader.clickarray.com> <3A963091.8058B7D@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A963091.8058B7D@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:42:41AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:42:41AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Satoshi Asami wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > As you may all know, the 3-stable branch has slowly being phased out > > for a while now. This is true for both the tree itself and the ports > > collection; fewer and fewer ports committers have 3-stable machines to > > test with, and the list of build errors kept growing little by little. > > > > Thus, I have decided to stop building 3-stable packages. The next run > > which starts in a few hours will be the last one for 3-stable. Of > > course, this last set of packages will be left on ftp.FreeBSD.org for > > a long time, just like the last set of 2.2.* packages. > > > > Thanks for your help. We can now concentrate all our resources on > > only two branches. (For a while anyway. ;) > > Cool. Please indicate when you have last run completed, so we can start > removing 3-stable specific hacks from ports (FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS, USE_NEWGCC, > etc). Hmm.. I don't really think Satoshi meant we are completely stopping support for 3.x in the Ports collection; just packages for the present. Or am I wrong? G'luck, Peter -- This sentence every third, but it still comprehensible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message