From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 17 22:38:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144E8106568B for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:38:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f227.google.com (mail-gx0-f227.google.com [209.85.217.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F748FC5B for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:38:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk27 with SMTP id 27so4225204gxk.12 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:38:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=VpwBNGR9tqP1XPmtviNpPzmBskcnUKMlAy8dohmAp0U=; b=dRpqdxWxvT89F0/aQsoOk15x5uZ4E2PE8hkjy2Yf2n7M+oAhSo+VSXz2/0mH/UE+Lh pnfGW2jZZaWOGGDLW8p3vWyFiZ0IbREX42JXEw2giko+44bV2khwmU+ie5fDLBycB+ss Z1YewKvG+esMZMyZPDwKxZG3h+xX0hBxHFZwM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=JAFXt/l9DQhbCJb63AuXreF8pYz1g4Kg5leny+D4CxhXLFeu0PuYUezJt7nsOK50lr RYMliPe9oSyCt9EZFcMUU1HCb5+yqtG1O/tqDEJyxp+I3jGC6aKKIpi1/ja6TB7Q50Z2 NtabyM4Jj9dzkyYT8felS0yd34TT6hsrGauaQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.10.2 with SMTP id 2mr6493571ybj.312.1250548681089; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:38:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A89D4F9.9020508@toyon.com> References: <4A89BD3E.8020804@toyon.com> <4A89CA18.7000506@toyon.com> <4A89D4F9.9020508@toyon.com> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:38:01 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0908171538i1e37fed0s56402edc62f523f6@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Chris Stankevitz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:38:02 -0000 On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Chuck, > > Thank you for your help. I have two questions: > > Chuck Swiger wrote: > >> Ports are not branched-- there is no STABLE or CURRENT for ports. The >> same ports tree can be used on 6.x, 7.x, and 8-CURRENT. >> > > 1. With what is the STABLE/CURRENT tag associated? Release/Stable/Current are related to the FreeBSD branch eg 6, 7, 8 > > a) "core operating system version number" > b) the ports collection > c) something else > > What are the repercussions of never updating the "core operating system >>> version number"? >>> >> >> Well, you'll miss ongoing security updates and improvements to the system. >> > > 2. I thought security updates and improvements to the system would arrive > via the ports mechanism. What kinds of things are not updated via ports? > (My experience is with Gentoo where everything is updated via portage and > there is no "core operating system version number"). > > Thanks again, > > Chris > > Ports are 3rd party apps not in the base system, things like apache and postgresql are part of ports not base system. Things like cp and tar are part of base system and not ports. FreeBSD userland and kernel is not part of ports system these are updated seperately using things like freebsd-update. -- Adam Vande More