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Subject: Re: ANy difference between 5.X ports tree and 4.X ports tree ?
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:42:38AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net> writes:
>>   There are *lots* of differences between 4.x, 5.x and current given some
> 
> there is no "more or less".  there is only one ports tree, and a
> freshly updated ports tree on a 4.9 box is exactly the same as a
> freshly updated ports tree on a 5.2 box.

the actual CVS tree yes, but from a user perspective where some
packages may build on 4-STABLE and not on 5-CURRENT there are
differences, that's why separate INDEX and INDEX-5 ports listings
exist where some ports will build under 4-STABLE but not 5-CURRENT.

One behavioral difference which I like is "make package" where
*.tgz packages are 4-STABLE and *.tbz packages are 5-CURRENT.

And to reiterate the answer to the original question the 
ports-supfile should be set to "*default release=cvs tag=."
if you need the latest changes. The ports tree progresses
constantly independent of 4.x or 5.x except during code 
freezes before a release so use the date tag in your cvusp 
file if you want a static snapshot of the ports tree.

--clark