昨日のFreeBSD 4.11-(STABLE|RELEASE)が2007年1月31日にEoLになるという話の続き．"EOS/EOL Policies of Ports and Ports Infrastructure on RELENG_4“によれば,
While still many people use RELENG_4, it is EOD. Portmgr has set the following policies with regard to EOL/EOS of this branch and kindly asks developers to implement these:というわけで，portsもRELENG_4がEoL1になったら公式にはサポートされなくなる2ということらしい…
- We keep building 4.11 packages as long as we have the resources. 4.X package builds will be deprioritised though, meaning they may not be rebuilt as frequently.
- We will continue to support the 4.X infrastructure until RELENG_4 EOL (31 January 2007) by building the INDEX on RELENG_4 for use by make fetchindex, and making sure that the Ports Collection infrastructure (bsd.port.mk, etc) continues to function on RELENG_4, subject to the reduced testing that this branch will receive.
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- We encourage all users and developers to migrate to the FreeBSD 6.X branch, which is a stable and mature platform, and is now the ‘reference’ FreeBSD branch for the Ports Collection.