From owner-freebsd-ports Sun May 13 14: 6:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A75337B423 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 14:06:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 273AB66C04; Sun, 13 May 2001 14:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 14:06:47 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Brad Knowles , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert , Joseph Mallett , dannyman Subject: Re: (long) upgrade kit for 3.x ports?! Message-ID: <20010513140646.B63072@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010509140838.C17000@dell.dannyland.org> <200105100026.RAA04754@usr06.primenet.com> <20010509180154.E17000@dell.dannyland.org> <20010510143702.A84503@rapier.smartspace.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010510143702.A84503@rapier.smartspace.co.za>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:37:03PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:37:03PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > I've brought up the fact we could easily support 3.x machines for the > ports tree (ie, building from source, not packages built on later > releaess) with an upgrade package on the ports list, but I was met with > silence. >=20 > And could people please talk about ports on ports@FreeBSD.org. Perhaps you meant to say "*I* could easily support 3.x machines". Most ports committers have little motivation to do the extra work of supporting the old releases, but if you're willing to support it yourself thats an entirely different story. Kris --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6/vdmWry0BWjoQKURAg5nAKCEXznkI1i/TlnfnTBYnZUDIQ5EMgCfVigi ILnAmWxN73yQ1lgq1/3HkII= =Fxs9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message