From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 07:56:49 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5F346C74; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:56:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-x232.google.com (mail-oa0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D8BB1FC6; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:56:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id i7so8938482oag.9 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:56:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=7wU4BPaqCFK4v36MrFzJTjXuWKsw4xzrd9ivG5d+1Ek=; b=KHdj1xdZMmWfNPaTvABwY9jq5EiLzhr+2zeVlpg9DHu4KyK2f28x1gX7vJaxxwDKO4 cWEw/c1YducfW8YjJgbT6pY/yiUT97lj6055d3vMx9DMkyudHQXUCOG6Y45brxbyH36X yurOPN/4KtTspSYDPuISXYYAS+bTcVhEqH2hss5El1MWhnCbRZySjGc0ja2LWjQU4ZLW Yut4LVaZndRe+HA7r4mKwhFJjXXv7DCJXJnj3VZetGV7FeVL6YHOErbnt+ScA2mH8spk gP4lUkCsGtThN+NnROlQF4OaFCDviFkDN4Dy/Zns7Xz9yZWAJquJiB9NlAR/GCT+BDt7 yTLg== X-Received: by 10.182.104.101 with SMTP id gd5mr606850obb.54.1397462208422; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:56:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.76.173.129 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:56:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20140402092434.GY99393@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> From: n j Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 09:56:28 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ports 2014Q2 branched To: stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:56:49 -0000 On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Chris H wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am pleased to announce that we have created the 2014Q2 branch of the > ports > > tree. > > > > Because the first 2014Q1 branch was experimental you might not have > heard of it > > yet. > > > > January 2014 saw the release of the first quaterly branch, intended at > > providing a stable and high-quality ports tree. Those stable branches > are a > > snapshot of the head ports tree taken every 3 months and currently > supported > > for three months, during which they receive security fixes as well as > build and > > runtime fixes. > > > > Packages are built on regular basis on that branch (weekly) and > published as > > usual via pkg.FreeBSD.org (/quarterly instead of the usual /latest). > > > > They are signed the same way the /latest branch is. > > > > While packages for 2014Q1 were only built for 10 (i386 and amd64) 2014Q2 > will be > > built for both FreeBSD 9 and 10 (i386 and amd64). > > > > The first build of 2014Q2 will started this morning (wednesday at 1 am > UTC) and should > > hit your closest mirrors very soon. > > > > On behalf of the port management team > > Bapt > > > A big +1 on this! IMHO l-o-o-n-g over due. Thanks Bapt! > > A step towards making FreeBSD a distribution, not just a base OS anymore? :-) -- Nino