From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 28 06:14:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0923106564A for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:14:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C9318FC17 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:14:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5S6EVN1009933 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:14:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C283DC7.7020900@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:14:31 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: perryh@pluto.rain.com References: <77CAB0EBFD944983B4A128424E55872D@GRANTPC> <4C27BF47.9010407@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4c281a1d.+P6RmxXnJedTzehg%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4c281a1d.+P6RmxXnJedTzehg%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.1 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:14:38 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/2010 04:42:21, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Fix your ports supfile: for ports you /always/ want HEAD ... > > s/always/almost &/ > > If one wanted to download a copy of the ports tree as it existed > when, say, 6.1 was released, specifying the corresponding tag would > be the way to get it. Granted one seldom wants a frozen checkpoint > like that. You know, practically speaking, the only people that actually need to use anything other than HEAD in a ports supfile are the people building the packages to go with a system release. And they only need to do that right around the point the release is being cut. The whole mindset that you need to match the ports tree to the OS version you have installed is just wrong[*]. Especially if you try and back-rev as far as 6.1-RELEASE. You're just going to be ignoring several years worth of bug fixes, not to mention opening yourself to any number of security holes that have since been discovered and closed. Granted you cannot use the current ports tree with a 6.1-RELEASE box. This is a hint that you really need to upgrade the OS as well as the ports... Cheers, Matthew [*] Even if you will be installing 8.1-RELEASE on the day it is released and using packages from the install media, you should still be checking for updated packages and security patches. - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwoPccACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyP5wCfa4ZnVHPfYbBqPPs7z254BkUc 9CgAn3Elhkz5eB2GEzdmUxUpREJSiCxP =wL38 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----