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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 2017 20:01:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl>
To:        Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        mueller6722@twc.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, fullermd@over-yonder.net
Subject:   Re: Status of portupgrade and portmaster?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.21.1710021956350.2025@yokozuna>
In-Reply-To: <201710021712.v92HCmdW033734@gw.catspoiler.org>
References:  <201710021712.v92HCmdW033734@gw.catspoiler.org>

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On Mon, 2 Oct 2017, the wise Don Lewis wrote:

> Yes it can.  If you use the svn method when creating a jail you can 
> chose any arbitrary source branch from the svn repository and then you 
> can specify any desired svn revision on that branch when you update the 
> jail.  You would probably want to use this method when building ports 
> for 12.0-CURRENT rather than creating the jail using a 12.0-CURRENT 
> snapshot.

I'm running 11.1-STABLE now, upgrading every few months or when there is 
an important security fix. Do I have to build a new system twice in that 
case (once my running system and once the poudriere jail)?

-- 
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made
of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts
is not necessarily science.
 		-- Jules Henri Poincar'e



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