Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:18:44 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANy difference between 5.X ports tree and 4.X ports tree ? Message-ID: <20040115131844.GL415@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <20040115091632.GA74072@ruminary.org> References: <E1AgoC5-000Jwa-O6@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <20040114172740.GA24901@memnoch.jk.homeunix.net> <xzpisjdmwld.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040115091632.GA74072@ruminary.org>
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:16:32AM -0800, clark shishido wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:42:38AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav 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. It's because of that that I NFS export two copies of the ports tree, one for 4.X and one for 5.X. Otherwise the INDEXes were clobbering each other and /usr/ports/packages was ... interesting. I also have both i386 and sparc64 machines, which is yet another twist on packages. I'd love to reclaim the disk the disk space by running only a single ports tree. I'd also love to have the build server (which is -STABLE) perform the all the INDEX making. Is there a clean way to do this? -T -- It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial. - Robert Heinlein
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