Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool

From: Michelle Sullivan <michelle_at_sorbs.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 05:30:08 +0200
Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 2014.09.01 22:09, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
>   
>> That's my point - there was a patch waiting to submit that knowingly
>> broke pkg_install at midnight on the day after the EOL... the EOL
>> shouldn't be an EOL - because it was really a 'portsnap after this date
>> before you upgrade and you're screwed it won't work any more at all...'
>>     
> As Peter outlined, this EOL was announced long ago, and it was mentioned at
> least once that it was to allow breaking changes. There really would be no
> reason to drop support for it in the ports tree if there were no plans to make
> changes.
>   

The point is the EOL was not an EOL, it was a deadline, either switch or
you're screwed, and it was communicated as an EOL not as a "here's a
deadline, switch or you're screwed"

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/
Received on Tue Sep 02 2014 - 01:30:14 UTC

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