From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 2 23:41:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA03860 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 23:41:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA03854 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 23:41:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id AAA02830; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 00:41:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.ampr.ab.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA01486; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 00:40:09 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 00:40:08 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko X-Sender: marcs@alive.ampr.ab.ca To: Jason Bennett cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports and -current In-Reply-To: <199611022338.SAA20089@r33h77.res.gatech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yes. The only ports tree which is kept up to date is for -current. A good number of them will work anyway on -stable, some of them need only minor tweaking, and some of them are nearly impossible to make work. It is quite unfortunate that things are that way but, right now, that's the way it is. On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Jason Bennett wrote: > > Do the latest ports depend on the -current branch? I've had > trouble compiling some ports with the -stable release, and I'm > wondering if the recent ports require stuff not in my source. > > jason