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

+--On 3 septembre 2014 17:17:48 +0200 Michelle Sullivan
<michelle_at_sorbs.net> wrote:
| Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> +--On 3 septembre 2014 16:36:29 +0200 Michelle Sullivan
|> <michelle_at_sorbs.net> wrote:
|> | Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> |> I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean, it's *End
|> |> Of Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more.
|> |> 
|> |>   
|> | Ahh so all those Windows XP servers are dead and don't work anymore...
|> 
|> Not at all, but you don't update them any more.
|> 
|>   
| Actually you do, but it does nothing... just like freebsd-update on any
| EOL release...
| 
| Microsoft didn't release a patch that would change the base system so
| you can no longer install any software... They just stopped providing
| updates, then later stopped providing security updates.

You can still go and fetch/build software. You can't do it using the
FreeBSD App Store though.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold