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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:35:46 -0600
From:      "Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net>
To:        "'Erik Trulsson'" <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, "'Duane Whitty'" <duane@greenmeadow.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Ports upgrade policy
Message-ID:  <016f01c64774$95c54630$0501a8c0@Mike8500>
In-Reply-To: <20060314082151.GA35446@owl.midgard.homeip.net>

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Erik Trulsson <mailto:ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:18:13AM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote:
>> Mike Loiterman wrote:
>>> This is my supfile:
>>> 
>>> *default  host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org
>>> *default  base=/usr
>>> *default  prefix=/usr
>>> *default  release=cvs
>>> *default  tag=RELENG_6_0
>>> *default  delete use-rel-suffix
>>> 
>>> src-all
>>> 
>>> *default tag=.
>>> ports-all
>>> doc-all
>>> 
>>> I have been using it like this for years, obviously changing to the
>>> latest release tag.  I haven't had problem and I'm not having
>>> problems, but my question is this: 
>>> 
>>> Is it advisable to sync my source to RELEASE, but to CURRENT for
>>> ports? Typically, I upgade my ports a few days after they get
>>> updated so I'm always running the latest version, but would it be
>>> better to sync both ports and source to RELEASE? 
>>> 
>> Hi Mike,
>> 
>> It would be nice I guess if ports were tagged like src but they are
>> not. Basically HEAD is all there is vis-a-vis tags.  You can specify
>> a specific date however.
> 
> Ports *are* tagged for each release, but they are not branched.

Yes, I know, which is why I asked the question...which is better?

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