From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 3 17:18:43 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B2F546 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2012 17:18:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350218FC0A for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2012 17:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-8-72.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.8.72]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39503CDF8; Sat, 3 Nov 2012 18:18:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id qA3HIZdo005392; Sat, 3 Nov 2012 18:18:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 18:18:35 +0100 From: Polytropon To: ajtiM Subject: Re: before new version Message-Id: <20121103181835.bb93d5d4.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <201211031123.12664.lumiwa@gmail.com> References: <201211031123.12664.lumiwa@gmail.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:18:43 -0000 On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 11:23:12 -0500, ajtiM wrote: > Hi! > > Could someone explain, please why ports should be frozen before a new version > of FreeBSD came out? The idea is to make sure that RELEASE can be shipped with installation media (CD, DVD) for offline use which requires ports mostly to be tested and working in some specific state, and then the packages (those you can access on the installation media) are generated from them. It's handy for systems that do not have Internet access to install software off-line. > It happened all the time and after update (if you update or not) there are so > many ports for updating. In case for very long waiting for version 9.1 will be > thousands of them. That could probably be. Most users who have Internet access and run servers (and also home systems) will tend to update the OS beyond RELEASE and also do so with the ports collection, or alternatively also use pkg_add -r from the Latest/ directory instead of RELEASE (which _always_ contains the ports generated from the frozen ports tree). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...