freebsd stable - Sep 2014 - [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool

+--On 3 septembre 2014 16:36:29 +0200 Michelle Sullivan
<michelle at sorbs.net> wrote:
| Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean, it's
*End Of
|> Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more.
|> 
|>   
| Ahh so all those Windows XP servers are dead and don't work anymore...

Not at all, but you don't update them any more.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold

Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +--On 3 septembre 2014 16:36:29 +0200 Michelle Sullivan
> <michelle at sorbs.net> wrote:
> | Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> |> I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean,
it's *End Of
> |> Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more.
> |> 
> |>   
> | Ahh so all those Windows XP servers are dead and don't work
anymore...
>
> Not at all, but you don't update them any more.
>
>   
Actually you do, but it does nothing... just like freebsd-update on any
EOL release...

Microsoft didn't release a patch that would change the base system so
you can no longer install any software... They just stopped providing
updates, then later stopped providing security updates.

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/

+--On 3 septembre 2014 17:17:48 +0200 Michelle Sullivan
<michelle@sorbs.net> wrote:
| Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> +--On 3 septembre 2014 16:36:29 +0200 Michelle Sullivan
|> <michelle@sorbs.net> wrote:
|> | Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> |> I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean,
it's *End
|> |> Of Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more.
|> |> 
|> |>   
|> | Ahh so all those Windows XP servers are dead and don't work
anymore...
|> 
|> Not at all, but you don't update them any more.
|> 
|>   
| Actually you do, but it does nothing... just like freebsd-update on any
| EOL release...
| 
| Microsoft didn't release a patch that would change the base system so
| you can no longer install any software... They just stopped providing
| updates, then later stopped providing security updates.

You can still go and fetch/build software. You can't do it using the
FreeBSD App Store though.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 05:17:48PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan
wrote:
> Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > +--On 3 septembre 2014 16:36:29 +0200 Michelle Sullivan
> > <michelle@sorbs.net> wrote:
> > | Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > |> I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean,
it's *End Of
> > |> Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more.
> > |> 
> > |>   
> > | Ahh so all those Windows XP servers are dead and don't work
anymore...
> >
> > Not at all, but you don't update them any more.
> >
> >   
> Actually you do, but it does nothing... just like freebsd-update on any
> EOL release...
> 
> Microsoft didn't release a patch that would change the base system so
> you can no longer install any software... They just stopped providing
> updates, then later stopped providing security updates.
Same for FreeBSD and pkg_*. Stay with status quo, use pkg_* with the
last tagged version of the ports tree that works with pkg_* or switch to
pkg and be happy like the rest of us.