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From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@...>
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Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] HEADS UP: Ports support for 5.X is no more
Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008 - 1:52 pm

As of June 1, 2008 00:00:00 UTC, FreeBSD 5.X support in the ports tree

is End Of Life.  This means that a ports tree checked out after this

date is not guaranteed to produce usable packages on 5.X.  Additionally,

5.X package builds on the cluster will cease.  Users are encouraged to

upgrade to 6.3 or 7.0 if they wish to continue to track the latest ports

tree.


A tag, RELEASE_5_EOL, has been laid down to mark the last point in the

ports tree that officially supported FreeBSD 5.X.  Port Manager asks

that you not rush to remove 5.X support right away as we'd like a

settling-down period, and we want secteam to have a chance to make their

EOL announcements as well.


Marcus on behalf of portmgr


Bcc: ports, developers, portmgr

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Joe Marcus Clarke

FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome@FreeBSD.org

FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome

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