From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 8:55:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CAAE37B403 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:55:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jrpenn.demon.co.uk ([194.222.241.254]) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17LnEb-000GSW-0U for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:55:36 +0100 Received: (from jeff@localhost) by jrpenn.demon.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5MFuCl06785 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:56:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jeff) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:56:12 +0100 From: Jeff Penn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade with package Message-ID: <20020622165612.A6763@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020622102616.A1192@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> <3D144F7F.DBFD24AF@liwing.de> <20020622124135.A1730@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> <20020622130547.GA285@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020622130547.GA285@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>; from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk on Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:05:47PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 22, Dr Matthew J Seaman wrote: > If you're using any version of FreeBSD 4, and so long as you update > any dependencies appropriately then any packages under > `packages-4-stable' should work for you. Just because you're running > RELENG_4_5 doesn't mean that you should only use packages from the > packages-4.5-release directory. In fact, if you're concerned about > security you definitely shouldn't limit yourself to just those > packages, or you won't pick up on security or other bug fixes. Thanks for the detailed explaination: This suggests that ports require a tag similar to sources, but section A.7 of the FreeBSD handbook states: Note: The ports tree does not have any tag associated with it, it is always CURRENT. Where do I specify which branch to use for my ports/packages? Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message