Announce: Unofficial binary package builds for old releases

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----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Day <toasty at dragondata.com>
> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724 at bellsouth.net>
> Cc: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
> Sent: Thursday, 6 June 2013 7:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Announce: Unofficial binary package builds for old releases
> 
> 
> On Jun 6, 2013, at 6:18 AM, "Thomas Mueller" 
> <mueller6724 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> 
>>  Currently building ports from the source, I don't know if I would use 
> these binary packages, but for pkgng, since FreeBSD is pushing users to switch 
> from old-style packages, it might be good to provide pkgng packages for the 
> newer releases of FreeBSD, >= 9.0, maybe not worthwhile on 8.x and earlier.
>> 
> 
> 
> Okay, a few dozen people have asked for pkgng packages now, so I'll get 
> those started ASAP. Also working on PPC packages.
> 
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glad you liked the idea. Now only if you can convince you customers to switch to pkgng ;)