Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:42:04 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1405746.nVtAo183hi@x220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <CADLo83-9-2cNaQvfL22jm_uQdqno1q2NOpg6V0NNP30t_6aG8Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <C480320C-0CD9-4B61-8AFB-37085C820AB7@FreeBSD.org> <2189681.al9jQ9fsnP@x220.ovitrap.com> <CADLo83-9-2cNaQvfL22jm_uQdqno1q2NOpg6V0NNP30t_6aG8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On 02 June 2012 AM 9:14:28 Chris Rees wrote: > On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, "Erich Dollansky" <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> > wrote: > > > > But I have to mention one disadvantage. The ports are in no way linked to > the releases. This leads to situations in which a small change in a basic > library will result in a complete update of the installed ports. I > expressed this already many time here. It would be of advantage if the > ports tree would also have tags like the base system itself. > > > > Unfortunately this is a massive amount of extra work - we only just keep up > with updates as it is. I do not think so. At least not for the first step as I see it. Just make snapshots of the ports tree when the release comes out. These snapshots are with the releases anyway. What I did was very simple. I got the ports tree that comes with the release and installed the system back to the release status. Ok, it was some work for me - maybe not for others - to find this tree. A simple link could help here. I do not know if this is just an opinion which is too optimistic. What I know is that all the security fixes which appeared since the release are not in there. If I have the choice between three days or more of compiling and known security holes, I will take the security holes, make the client happy and upgrade after the work for the client is finished. I would not expect that FreeBSD will provide more than this. Erich
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