On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:34 PM, JoelFRodriguez <j...@tahoestores.com> wrote: > Are you serious? Upgrading the OS on a production machine is a really steep > price to pay. I've over a thousand working ports and numerous customers that > I would have to port afterwards.
The official policy is that once a branch goes EOL the porting framework (bsd.port.mk) is tested and compatible. The QA and package building scripts are also run on supported branches. Individual ports are handled by the maintainer of that port. (I'm not a comitter, just stating what I've read elsewhere) On a less official note: I've found that maintainers are generally helpful with this sort of thing and would be willing to apply a patch to make it work on 6.x if it provided to them. The maintainer in this case is off...@freebsd.org (see "make maintainer") > You really can't fix what appears to be a reasonable request? As others in this thread have said: you can't expect us to do the work for you but it shouldn't be too difficult to do yourself. This all said I do want to point out that once a branch is EOL no more security or stability patches are provided. It would be well worth moving over to a newer version of FreeBSD. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
