Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine
Paul Schmehl
pauls at utdallas.edu
Tue Apr 19 08:41:58 PDT 2005
--On Monday, April 18, 2005 10:22:13 PM -0600 Brett Glass
<brett at lariat.org> wrote:
> At 10:16 PM 4/18/2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
>> The ports support policy is right there on www.freebsd.org/ports for
>> all to read.
>
> It's not reasonable, IMHO. If a release hasn't been EOLed, ports should
> work on it.
>
That's kind of silly, don't you think? As new software is developed and
added to ports, why would there be *any* expectation that it would work on
older releases? Do you honestly think a developer is going to test - say -
usb drivers on a FBSD release that never had usb?
You can keep old versions around forever if all you want to do is run
what's on them, but if you want the latest and greatest of everything, the
*OS* has to be new as well.
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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