On 02/06/07, Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 29/05/07, Mark Linimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:17:57PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > > Agreed.  6.3-RELEASE would nominally be due around July but the lack
> > > of any schedule on http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ suggests that it will
> > > be later than that.  The plans to start the 7.0-RELEASE cycle will also
> > > impact this.
> >
> > At BSDCan, Ken Smith mentioned that 7.0 is due to be branched in July and
> > released in Aug/Sep, with 6.3 quickly following (perhaps even overlapping
> > so as to reuse the same ports freeze).
> >
> > The ports tree is not even close to stable enough to release right now.

> Given that Kris repeatedly tells me and others that the ports system
> is only supported on the latest freebsd release (meaning one has to be
> upgrading freebsd on their servers every few months to get this
> support) if 7.0 and 6.3 are released around the same time will the
> ports tree be supported on both?

I believe you misunderstood something. Where do you think Kris said that?

Fabian



He said using the ports is only supported in the latest FreeBSD
release, so eg. its not supported in 5.5 and 6.0 and 6.1.

Chris
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