Re: Announce Broken Ports

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 07/26/03

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To: Leonardo Lazarte <llazarte@mat.unb.br>

    On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:00:07PM -0300, Leonardo Lazarte wrote:
    >
    > As seen in several messages to this and other lists, the PORTS
    > mecanism has been broken.
    >
    > I have read about some patches and possible solutions, but I
    > could not find an easy way to overcome the problem.
    >
    > Shouldn't it be announced clearly, on the FreeBSD site, that
    > there is a problem with PORTS, perhaps pointing to some
    > temporary solution, until the problem is solved?

    It is announced clearly on the FreeBSD website that old FreeBSD
    releases are unsupported.

      http://www.freebsd.org/ports/

    > I have used FreeBSD for a decade, and it is the first time
    > that I have to change the OS version due to problems broght
    > from the distributions.

    You've been fortunate, but if your claim is true (the FreeBSD project
    has existed for 10 years and 3 weeks, so you must have been one of the
    very first users), then you've presumably got the skills to cope.

    Kris

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