Jason C. Wells wrote:
Ports astonish me more often than FreeBSD to be sure. If one uses a
port that was built on a 6.0 system, can one trust that no bit rot will
occur by the time 6.9 rolls around. Will all of FreeBSDs interfaces and
features remain backward compatible? While the developer community
might employee POLA in this regard, this sure seems like the kind of
policy issue that would be written into our release engineering
documents. (I couldn't find it.)
Looks like you want to read this:
http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/policies.html
POLA is an ideal, it may be necessary to violate POLA for example for
security reasons, and you may have system upgrades that will require
rebuild of ports too - recently a bug in openssl required a rebuild of
world - and I assume any ports built against the base' openssl.
I don't understand your concern, if you upgrade the base system wouldn't
it be time to check your ports too? If you insist just don't update your
ports tree, that should keep it working with the same versions of ports
although you may have to rebuild individual ports.
I find it easier to adapt continuously to small astonishments :)
Cheers, Erik
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