Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:15:52 +0100 From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: release cycle Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0706041315q9e527b7n886dd73997cc5ac5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <F092B226-5BAA-4C91-A533-01916A8181BA@ece.cmu.edu> References: <465BF62B.6090904@vwsoft.com> <20070529102929.GA49322@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20070529111757.GE70055@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070529182224.GD8255@soaustin.net> <3aaaa3a0706020045v1ce69a7bsec4a8dced2a99fe1@mail.gmail.com> <F092B226-5BAA-4C91-A533-01916A8181BA@ece.cmu.edu>
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On 02/06/07, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2007, at 3:45 , Chris wrote: > > > Given that Kris repeatedly tells me and others that the ports system > > is only supported on the latest freebsd release (meaning one has to be > > upgrading freebsd on their servers every few months to get this > > support) if 7.0 and 6.3 are released around the same time will the > > ports tree be supported on both? > > I think you're confused by terminology. As I understand it, the > ports tree is supported on -CURRENT and the latest -STABLE series: > that is, currently on 6.x and 7.x (and possibly 5.x still since > RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 were both being released for a while), but not > RELENG_4 or earlier. > > -- > brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com > system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu > electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH > > > So my question remains when we have 7.0 and 6.3 both STABLE releases will the ports tree not be supported in 6.3 a just released version of FreeBSD? Chris
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