Linux ports roadmap

[Dmitry Chagin]

сб, 8 июн. 2019 г. в 20:35, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at freebsd.org>:

> Hi,
>
> These are the current rough dates I have in mind for some major changes
> to the Linux ports.  Please comment if you see any problems.
>
> July 10 (after FreeBSD 11.3 release)
> Make linux c7 ports the default.  This is one month after today's major
> update to the c7 ports and after 2019Q3 branching.  It's also early in Q3
> so any problems can be fixed before 2019Q4 branching.
>
> On amd64 it's possible to install 32 bit c6 ports, mixed 32/64 bit
> c6_64 ports (current default), or mixed 32/64 bit c7 ports.  The 32 bit
> c6 option only exists for users of x11/nvidia-driver* which did not
> support 64 bit until recently.  This 64 bit support required some kernel
> changes that will be in FreeBSD 11.3 so after its release I'd like to
> get rid of the 32 bit c6 option, i.e. c6 will become mixed 32/64 bit and
> c6_64 and the special handling for it will go away.  This makes c6
> similar to c7.
>
> December 31
> Remove CentOS 6 ports.  There's no need to keep them if c7 works.  We
> may have c8 ports to deal with by this time as well.
>

no objection from me