Wrote Angus Lees on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:33:58PM +1100:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:15:33AM +1100, Chuck Dale wrote:
> > Perhaps there are new features that would be useful. If there are, then
> > upgrade. Don't upgrade just because of some general belief that there
> > are so many new features and software packages that you're losing out by
> > not upgrading.
>
> i think "apt-get source -b <package>" needs to be mentioned here
> somewhere..
Mm nice, I'll have to use that.
> > It's a good point that if upstream authors are not supporting such
> > versions then it would be time to upgrade. With FreeBSD however, old
> > packages seem to be supported for a much longer time than with
> > Debian/Linux.
>
> interesting, given that its usually the same software anyway, and i
> would have thought the freebsd development and user community were
> smaller than the debian and linux communities.
>
> how far back do freebsd support packages?
>
> and do they fix problems by offering a newer version of the package,
> or backporting each and every fix?
Actually I was just going on feeling when I said that. Looking at the
FreeBSD website I am rather wrong - they are only providing security
updates from 3.5-RELEASE at the moment, which was released all of four
months ago..
Seems pretty similar to Debian.
As to how many packages are shared between Linux and *BSD: I checked
that out recently because I was interested. OpenBSD seems to share very
little (except obviously major packages that you install from ports).
There are generally about 15 ports I install on a new OpenBSD box. They
use a fair amount of Gnu tools and of course X, but the Gnu tools are
nicely sandboxed into /usr/gnu =)
Chuck
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