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author | Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu@FreeBSD.org> | 2021-09-18 08:44:56 +0000 |
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committer | Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu@FreeBSD.org> | 2021-10-07 08:52:06 +0000 |
commit | e761728685b12571bdf0a8a20d4506c8c58f934c (patch) | |
tree | be9be33731d6f0c87c5d5feaef35a1e6670148fa /UPDATING | |
parent | df77bbd6c1061a63ec6fbd7ee80efaf5a011d2a3 (diff) | |
download | ports-e761728685b12571bdf0a8a20d4506c8c58f934c.tar.gz ports-e761728685b12571bdf0a8a20d4506c8c58f934c.zip |
security/clamav-lts: Add new port
* Add Long Term Support release of ClamAV
* Add CONFLICTS_INSTALL to security/clamav
* Add entry to UPDATING that explains
- Upstream changed their end-of-life policy and LTS release is
introduced
- How to switch from regular release (security/clamav) to LTS
release (security/clamav-lts)
Note about setting PORTEPOCH
In general new port should not set PORTEPOCH. But in this case it
should be set with following reason.
1. Recently upstream changed their end-of-life policy as following.
- Regular feature release (= 0.xyz.0 release) is released more
frequently, and life time of each feature release is shortened to
about 4 months.
- To compensate for the short lifetime of regular feature release,
Long Term Support feature release is introduced and its life time
is about 3 years.
2. First LTS starts with version 0.103.3 and it is same as current
version of security/clamav.
3. Because of short lifetime of regular feature release, it is
probable that not a few users of security/clamav want to switch to
security/clamav-lts after the latter is connected (and the former
is updated to 0.104.0).
3. For such users the entry is added to UPDATING about how to switch
from security/clamav to security/clamav-lts. And binary package
user is suggested to execute
`pkg set -o security/clamav:security/clamav-lts`. This command
changes the origin of already installed clamav packages. So user
can switch to LTS version without reinstalling.
4. But if PORTEPOCH isn't set in security/clamav-lts, binary package
user who executed above command will notice that version of
installed package (0.103.3,1) succeeds to current version of
security/clamav-lts (0.103.3). The situation doesn't change after
new patch release (0.103.4 for example) is released and it causes
the problem that installed package isn't properly upgraded with
`pkg upgrade`.
5. So PORTEPOCH is set in security/clamav-lts to prevent binary
package user from suffering from such problem.
Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
-rw-r--r-- | UPDATING | 28 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -5,6 +5,34 @@ they are unavoidable. You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades. +20211007: + AFFECTS: user of security/clamav + AUTHOR: yasu@FreeBSD.org + + Upstream changed end-of-life policy and introduced long time support + (LTS) feature release. + + * LTS feature release will be identified approximately every two + years and supported for at least three years from the initial + publication date of that LTS feature version. + * Regular (non-LTS) feature releases will be supported for at least + four months from the initial publication date of the next feature + release or until the feature release after that is published. + + According to it new port security/clamav-lts is added for users who + want to use LTS version of ClamAV. + + Users wanting to switch to LTS version can replace security/clamav + with security/clamav-lts with one of following commands. + + If you use pkg with binary packages: + # pkg set -o security/clamav:security/clamav-lts + # pkg upgrade + If you use portmaster: + # portmaster -o security/clamav-lts security/clamav + If you use portupgrade: + # portupgrade -o security/clamav-lts security/clamav + 20211006: AFFECTS: users of misc/freebsd-doc-* AUTHOR: blackend@FreeBSD.org |