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Date:      Tue, 1 Oct 2013 12:14:42 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SVN RELEASE_9_2_0
Message-ID:  <20131001121442.40337dc0@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <2E.C1.15529.0227A425@cdptpa-oedge01>
References:  <2E.C1.15529.0227A425@cdptpa-oedge01>

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On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:56:32 +0000
Thomas Mueller wrote:

> # Is FreeBSD doing something new?  I don't see an SVN tag for ports
> for # the 9.2 release.  Historically the ports tree was tagged and
> built a # little before -stable got tagged for release.
>  
> # Thanks,
> # Jason
> 
> Ports don't belong to a specific FreeBSD version.
> 
> It's the built packages that are prepared shortly before release.
> 
> For the ports and doc trees, you would go for head (current).

He's not talking about a branch. It was a tag that allowed one to fetch
the snapshot of the ports tree that was included on the release CDs and
from which the release packages were built.



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