Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 22:52:48 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> Cc: David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD? Message-ID: <CADLo838ttnQjADM0P4dNOoZ5nwbmwbmvtu5yySt9pR3odb4CgA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1405746.nVtAo183hi@x220.ovitrap.com> References: <C480320C-0CD9-4B61-8AFB-37085C820AB7@FreeBSD.org> <2189681.al9jQ9fsnP@x220.ovitrap.com> <CADLo83-9-2cNaQvfL22jm_uQdqno1q2NOpg6V0NNP30t_6aG8Q@mail.gmail.com> <1405746.nVtAo183hi@x220.ovitrap.com>
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On 2 June 2012 10:42, Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> wrot= e: > Hi, > > On 02 June 2012 AM 9:14:28 Chris Rees wrote: >> On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, "Erich Dollansky" <erich@alogreentechnologies.co= m> >> 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 basi= c >> 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 ar= e with the releases anyway. > > What I did was very simple. I got the ports tree that comes with the rele= ase and installed the system back to the release status. Ok, it was some wo= rk 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 relea= se are not in there. If I have the choice between three days or more of com= piling and known security holes, I will take the security holes, make the c= lient happy and upgrade after the work for the client is finished. > > I would not expect that FreeBSD will provide more than this. Then you already have all you need-- RELEASEs use packages compiled at time of release if you use pkg_add -r, and the ports tree is tagged at release if you wish to get a 'snapshot'. Note that you will not get any official support if you choose to use a tagged tree :) Chris
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