On 2005.05.23 17:38:12 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 5:08 pm, Simon L. Nielsen said: > > On 2005.05.23 16:51:18 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > >> > >> Thanks for the info guys. Does this "security support" also mean that > >> current ports will be compatible with the release? > > > > No, there are no guarantees about that. The ports/ people generally > > try to make things work with older releases, but there are no gurantees > > there. It's simply too much work to make such guarantees, and this is > > after all an volunteer project (for most parts anyway). See also > > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ for the "official" statement. > > Right, i didnt think so. Debian is a volunteer project too, and their > packaging system supports all of their branches.
But see how many branches they have to support - not many. It's quite a different question when you have new branches every < 6 months compared to when you have one every few years. > I guess i should look > into rolling my own packages, to be sure. And yes, i realize that we just > dont have an infrastructure for something like this. Well, you always have the option to simply backport whatever fixes you want yourself. There are a good chance that most things will work for quite a while. -- Simon L. Nielsen
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