From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 06:55:17 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-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 CB0D8289 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 06:55:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x230.google.com (mail-qc0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::230]) (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 82F271469 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 06:55:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f176.google.com with SMTP id m20so3648101qcx.7 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:55:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=9vluWjazJ+wHqFyOhVZBpXh+YsQUKlC5hUoaThSEEKg=; b=nYBg4yyBgCK/+/PJb+/uc/6Ta1IjsjXJ5CbY/P4p3o/fU2ahlyLpL6Ddxitq3Bzagr pDIrqgqYaOzOtJleLXoiaJR1pieXZtnRKDjLrihh5tBKr9y7EFUzSPoHIr8eQvIIDs2f LApC2HaqT57Vx91m9ZZXBn08zr2jdhA1yJ5UA= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=9vluWjazJ+wHqFyOhVZBpXh+YsQUKlC5hUoaThSEEKg=; b=j0k6VLCKofeU8bV9JgkULBAPOM6vrCN/u+aBptfsEGRarjCfZkPHfqEpsdPVflFpIz UYokNRD2smCI8mMvXMCNmWW4mnPbCUcoy0etJUUjFjN/nK/LYUHQMsgoklJm86oKhuC2 lgYrV267K/XrfOOhy6yB3HEg3prH0IFZ4/8/cx4GHSHTFGqevvt6OWBGhZaAqsApS4M8 PDI/hyqhWgMpfCE67LuDeDBdsV5wuO9fP9CfcwlOaRqvDMed2Admd26xbF2sAWsR+QE8 civjLRoQJ+TCkii/Ec7DNPFqzDaHiRij2Q+jXqbo5RlHTHJ21gpvkcsWYs04cRX7q4Jv UihA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn+8WagAkViDypPB4EMZd626ZnRzBiY1Y1RvZ/n/zVv/sWozZCyohbAcKuj5FCaRYbCXrLr X-Received: by 10.140.47.18 with SMTP id l18mr41850308qga.9.1398063316538; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:55:16 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.96.54.102 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:54:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <397188.180.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <397188.180.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> From: Eitan Adler Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:54:45 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Does src tree have to be in sync with installed FreeBSD to build ports? To: Thomas Mueller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-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, 21 Apr 2014 06:55:17 -0000 On 20 April 2014 23:41, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Is it necessary for the installed FreeBSD to be in sync with the src tree for ports to build successfully? > > I might update the src tree to see what is happening but not do the buildworld and buildkernel every time. Could that hurt for building ports? Or do I worry needlessly? It only matters if you build ports that interact with "private system internals". For example, anything that builds a kernel module and lsof. Generally, you should be fine. -- Eitan Adler