Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:52:38 -0700 From: Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: STABLE vs CURRENT packages Message-ID: <51C1D3C6.9040505@astart.com>
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I just know that this is somewhere in the FreeBSD Handbook. And I probably deserve the scorn and snickers these questions will get. I just checked the .ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/ site and saw: packages-8-stable <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/>; 10/11/12 00:00:00 packages-8.3-release <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.3-release/>; 03/28/12 00:00:00 packages-8.4-release <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.4-release/>; 05/09/13 05:06:00 packages-9-current <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-current>; 12/09/11 00:00:00 packages-9-stable <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/>; 04/16/13 15:20:00 packages-9.1-release <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/>; 04/11/13 03:29:00 packages-stable <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-stable>; 11/07/11 00:00:00 I noted that the dates on the some of the packages in packages-8-stable were 2012, while most of those in packages-8.4.-release were much newer - 2013. And I noticed that there was no 'packages-8-current' directory. Questions: what is the relationship between the 'stable', 'release', and 'current' versions? And where is this documented in the FreeBSD Handbook? Is there supposed to be a 'packages-8-current' directory? OK, start the snickers and humiliation :-) ... -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies papowell@astart.com 1530 Jamacha Road, Suite X, Network and System El Cajon, CA 92019 Consulting 858-874-6543 Web Site: www.astart.com FAX 858-357-9931
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