On 04.05.2016 09:03, Greg Byshenk wrote:
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 01:44:29PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
On 3/05/2016 2:31 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
+--On 3 mai 2016 12:02:13 +0800 Julian Elischer <jul...@freebsd.org> wrote:
| On 2/05/2016 8:39 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> There is a tag, https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/tags/PKG_INSTALL_EOL/
|> that gives you the last version to support pkg_install. Anything after
|> that will not work with it. At all.
| I'm not looking to produce old packages of the ports tree.. I know the
| ports crew would hate me for that.
|
| What I object to is not having the tools needed to generate MY OWN
| PACKAGES in ports.
You can generate your own packages from the ports tree, just not with
pkg_install, it was deprecated three or four years ago, and remove 19
months ago.
Of course I can create NEW packages.. I want to generate OLD style
packages..
what's so hard to understand about that? if a company has old
packages build into it's infrastructure....
and has to create old style packages of "proprietary stuff" to send
out to appliances out in the field then you are breaking them.
I'm not a developer, so anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
in any of this, but...
Julian, you -can- create old-style packages (eg: of proprietary
internal software); you just have to do it based on an old-style
ports tree (which you can checkout, if you need it, as noted
above).
What you cannot do is create old-style packages from a new ports
tree. This is because the ports infrastructure has been changing
since pkg_install was deprecated, and pkg_install simply will not
work with the current ports tree (and, as I understand it, cannot
practically be modified in order to work with it).
You are mostly correct. It is possible to modify and old ports-tree to
get the new software in. I have at least two customer paying me for
exact this work. But to be fair: it is no fun and harder with every new
release :D
I suppose what some customer need is an LTS version. Missing one is a
show stopper for FreeBSD usage in many firms i talked to. I do not think
this is a good idea from a technical point - but firms are slow and want
stability.
Greetings,
Torsten
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