From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 06:59:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C84D237B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37FD643F3F for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:59:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from 208-59-178-24.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([208.59.178.24] helo=jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) by smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #4) id 19Qp5A-0005kW-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:59:08 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16105.55467.733705.770612@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:59:07 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030613093625.83228.qmail@mx.tele-kom.ru> References: <20030613093625.83228.qmail@mx.tele-kom.ru> X-Mailer: VM 7.11 under 21.4 (patch 12) "Portable Code" XEmacs Lucid Subject: Re: Are there STABLE/CURRENT/RELEASE tags for ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:59:10 -0000 DoubleF writes: > You might be misunderstanding the question. The update of the OS > itself doesn't harm ports (in my humble experience). My experience differs, I have seen ports break across OS version changes. (That said, the port in question was less than vigoeously supported and the change was to a X.0 ... but it has happened.) Robert Huff