ports and freebsd 4.11
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Mar 29 18:54:52 UTC 2007
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:47:12AM -0300, D G Teed wrote:
> Question: I read this in /usr/ports/UPDATE:
>
> 20070205:
> AFFECTS: all users of FreeBSD 4.X
> AUTHOR: portmgr at FreeBSD.org
>
> The remnants of FreeBSD 4.X support have been removed from bsd.port.mk.
> Any remaining users should _not_ get this or any subsequent updates.
>
> Then I found this announcement:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/policies_releng_4.html
>
> What does that boil down to in end user English?
> I can't build things in ports if I'm running 4.11, or that
> I should never try to update packages from ports in 4.11?
The former.
Kris
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