Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:27:40 -0800 From: John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Pete French <petefrench@keithprowse.com> Subject: Re: ANy difference between 5.X ports tree and 4.X ports tree ? Message-ID: <20040114172740.GA24901@memnoch.jk.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <E1AgoC5-000Jwa-O6@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <E1AgoC5-000Jwa-O6@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:48:37PM +0000, Pete French wrote: > As I understand it, the ports tree is the same for both STABLE and > CURRENT isnt it ? So can I safely do a cvsup with the line > > ports-all tag=RELEASE_5_2_0 > > to update my ports collection to the set which comes with 5.2 > release, despite the fact I am running 4.9 ? ... There are *lots* of differences between 4.x, 5.x and current given some distance in time separating them, but you're right that the ports are more or less the same. They key word there is "more or less" -- there are tiny differences (by volume) and that is what you're seeing. For example, if I look at the CVS history of the sendmail port, I might see something like this: cvs log Makefile | grep -e RELEASE_5_[12] -e RELEASE_4_[89] -e ^head head: 1.83 RELEASE_5_2_0: 1.83 RELEASE_4_9_0: 1.77 RELEASE_5_1_0: 1.71 RELEASE_4_8_0: 1.65 Anytime you see that version number bump up (4.9 at 1.77, 5.2 at 1.83) then you're going to see alterations. 5.2 vs. head wouldn't have caused them in this one case, since they're the same.
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