saving a few ports from death

[Olli Hauer]

On 2011-04-27 17:59, Mikhail T. wrote:
> On -10.01.-28163 14:59, Robert Huff wrote:
>>     It is also possible it is only important to a fairly small
>> number ... but to those it is absolutely crucial.
> Or the port might become useful/essential/critical to somebody in the future...
> 
> What is not broken -- just old, like  databases/db2 or www/apache13*, for
> example -- should be left alone (until it becomes both broken and unmaintained).
> And even then, the removal should not be mass-scale/automatic...


What are you missing in the db2 implementation of FreeBSD which is in the OS
and maintained by the OS developers?

For myself I see the apache13 EOL with a whining and a laughing eye, and can
understand if users don't want to upgrade to 22/24 because of complex and
working configurations. But I also look at the future development of the OS
and environment where such old dinosaur should see a ice time to make room
for new live.

Within the apache13/20 deprecation also other ports will go since they are not
compatible with newer apache version.

For anyone interested I've done a quick grep over my local build logs to get
a list of ports which depends on apache13/20

http://people.freebsd.org/~ohauer/diffs/apache_ports/apache13_ports.log
http://people.freebsd.org/~ohauer/diffs/apache_ports/apache20_ports.log

Most of the ports have equivalents for apache22.
http://people.freebsd.org/~ohauer/diffs/apache_ports/apache22_ports.log

All those ports where build with the following setting in bsd.apache.mk
DEFAULT_APACHE_VERSION=     22
APACHE_SUPPORTED_VERSION=   22 13 20

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olli