Packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkg(8)

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 04:05:24 +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> said:

>> [I wrote:]
>> through the intermediate source releases just as you would do now.
>> All you need to do is preserve the last release package set you build
>> from each stable branch.

> I am talk about SUDDENLY discovered outdated setup.

Well, modern best practice says "burn them to the ground".  That's an
unsatisfying answer, but it is widely accepted that this is not a
situation worth turning somersaults for.

-GAWollman