Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:44:40 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are there STABLE/CURRENT/RELEASE tags for ports? Message-ID: <16105.18600.619912.915538@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20030612120419.R54893-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> References: <20030612042523.59748.qmail@mx.tele-kom.ru> <20030612120419.R54893-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu>
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Mark Miller writes: > On a more pragmatic note, are there any particular reasons that > port maintainers can't use the -STABLE tag for their updates? It > seems like a general guideline of "stable lags current by X > weeks" might help things tremendously. I've never put together a port, but mu understanding is that authors have two ways to do this, should they need to: set certain variables in the Makefile test (IFDEF/IFNDEF) in the code itself My experience: _very_ few ports need this; they are written to not care what version they're on. Robert Huff
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