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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:21:51 +0100
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To: Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca>
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Subject: Re: Ports upgrade policy
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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.


> 
> Duane
> >Obviously, it depends, somewhat, on personal choice, but in terms of
> >stablity and "correctness" which is better?
> >

-- 
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se