If memory serves me right, Jayton Garnett wrote: > Brian wrote: >> It is interesting that if you run freebsd-update on a 6.2 system, you >> get an end of life approaching please upgrade message. This is >> surprising since either of the upgrade targets are not yet released. >> Additionally, the phrase End of Life has pretty strong conntations.
EOL is a commonly-used term in the software industry. For FreeBSD, it is the point past which a given release will no longer be supported by security advisories/patches, as well as freebsd-update. > Thats odd, never knew FreeBSD had an EoL, other than support ceasing for > older releases, which is most likely refers to. But surely 6.2 is still > to be supported for a few more years?! This page gives the official EOL dates for the various FreeBSD releases, as well as more information surrounding this term. As I write this, the estimated EOL for 6.2-RELEASE is 31 May 2008. http://security.freebsd.org/ There were postings to stable@ and security@ about this message...if I remember right the basic gist was that freebsd-update(8) makes some assumptions about when the EOL date that turned out not to be true due to delays in 6.3-RELEASE, and that this message can be safely ignored. Bruce.
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