Re: How long are old pkgsrc releases supported?

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

On 04/23, Frank Wille wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:49:25 -0400
> Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
> > In this case, I would expect you have a staging/test/etc sever with the
> > same OS and similar hardware,
> 
> No I have not. How similar would the hardware have to be? CPU architecture
> is enough? Probably depends on the applications needed?
> Otherwise it is hard to argue for me that I have to buy the same server
> again just to be able to update the first one.

You could use a VM (e.g., VMware, VirtualBox, or QEMU) to build on
another machine that you already have (e.g., your own computer).

Lewis