From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 7 12:14:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blizzard.sabbo.net (ns.sabbo.net [193.193.218.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F389437B4EC for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:14:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from vic.sabbo.net (root@vic.sabbo.net [193.193.218.112]) by blizzard.sabbo.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f17KDwg06246; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:14:00 +0200 Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vic.sabbo.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f17KE3m07278; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:14:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3A81AC8A.CE663ED0@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:14:02 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Stable and devel ports References: <20010207225305.C2444@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Valeriy E. Ushakov" wrote: > Porter's handbook doesn't seem to touch this topic. What are the best > current practice for maintaining a stable and a -devel versions of a > port? Are any special arrangements to allow them to live side by side > desirable or one can safely assume that its stable XOR devel. It depends. For example if the ports represents end-product (window manager for example), then there should be little or no reason to tweak stable and devel version to allow them live side by side. However, if the port is a library, and there are some ports in the tree that may work only with devel version of this port then you have to tweak devel port to allow it to co-exist on the same machive with the stable version. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message