From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 15:27:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3867916A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:27:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from swin.edu.au (c3p0.cc.swin.edu.au [136.186.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C48343F3F for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:27:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au) Received: from pvdbergen.caia.swin.edu.au (pvdbergen.caia.swin.edu.au [136.186.229.26]) by swin.edu.au (8.9.3p2-20030918/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA984477 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:27:15 +1100 (EST) From: paul van den bergen To: ports@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:27:15 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312051027.15726.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> Subject: semi-newbie ports question X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:27:19 -0000 just curious about how -release, -stable and -current operate wrt ports. More just a desire to confirm my understanding is correct... I suppose that there are 2 port trees, -stable and -current?, so the shifting target that is ports is relevent to whichever branch you have. alternately, there is just "ports" and the branch you have is a compile time variable... how far can one be from the most recent -stable and still expect ports to work? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made." Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824