FreeBSD portmgr secretary
2007-Jan-05 10:16 UTC
HEADS UP: FreeBSD ports 4.11 EoL coming soon
On January 31st, FreeBSD 4.11 and earlier releases will have reached its End of Life dates and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Ports Team. Users are encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1, or the upcoming FreeBSD 6.2 release. Packages for binary installations will no longer be built for FreeBSD 4.11. Building ports from source will no longer be supported and will no longer be tested on the pointyhat cluster. Additionally, INDEX will not be built anymore and available for the 'make fetchindex' target. Patches for individual ports specific for their functioning on FreeBSD 4.11 may be accepted at the maintainers digression, but ports will not be required to be marked BROKEN or IGNORE if they do not build or run. The FreeBSD 6.X branch, which is a stable and mature platform, is the 'reference' FreeBSD branch for the Ports Collection. We again wish to strongly encourage users to upgrade to this branch. -erwin Portmgr secratary -- Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Security is like an onion. (o_ _o) It's made up of several layers \\\_\ /_/// erwin@FreeBSD.org And it makes you cry. <____) (____> erwin@aauug.dk -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070105/4e94934d/attachment.pgp