Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:37:45 +0100 From: Clement Laforet <sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> To: paul van den bergen <pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: semi-newbie ports question Message-ID: <20031205003745.406905f1.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> In-Reply-To: <200312051027.15726.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> References: <200312051027.15726.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au>
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On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:27:15 +1100 paul van den bergen <pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> wrote: > 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. There's only one ports tree. The CVS tree is tagged for each release, to make package building easier and to avoid a too long ports tree lock. (I think) > how far can one be from the most recent -stable and still expect ports > to work? ports are supported only for latest -STABLE and -CURRENT. But generally ports build fine on older versions. clem
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