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Date:      Sat, 2 Jun 2007 09:03:29 -0400
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: release cycle
Message-ID:  <F092B226-5BAA-4C91-A533-01916A8181BA@ece.cmu.edu>
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On Jun 2, 2007, at 3:45 , Chris wrote:

> Given that Kris repeatedly tells me and others that the ports system
> is only supported on the latest freebsd release (meaning one has to be
> upgrading freebsd on their servers every few months to get this
> support) if 7.0 and 6.3 are released around the same time will the
> ports tree be supported on both?

I think you're confused by terminology.  As I understand it, the  
ports tree is supported on -CURRENT and the latest -STABLE series:   
that is, currently on 6.x and 7.x (and possibly 5.x still since  
RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 were both being released for a while), but not  
RELENG_4 or earlier.

-- 
brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH





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