From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 8 15:36:19 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE4BFC9 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 15:36:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46F5D29 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 15:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.37]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 08 Feb 2013 10:36:14 -0500 Received: from smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.104]) by mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 4.3.4-GA) with ESMTP id BXR94257; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:36:13 -0500 Received: from 209-6-84-183.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.84.183]) by smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 08 Feb 2013 10:36:11 -0500 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20757.7017.86899.648999@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:36:09 -0500 To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk Subject: Re: how to move 9.1 ports to HEAD? In-Reply-To: <201302081507.r18F7cPc035500@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20130208145550.GY1799@albert.catwhisker.org> <201302081507.r18F7cPc035500@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 22) "Instant Classic" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, david@catwhisker.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:36:19 -0000 Anton Shterenlikht writes: > You already have (achieved this): ports is (still) not brnched as src > is. We use the head of the ports tree for all branches of FreeBSD. > > I don't think it's true. > While still on 9.1 ports, the latest > entry in UPDATING was (well I lost it now) > about NOV-2012. I believe the revision was > also substantially lower. > > AS soon as I switched to head, > the latest entry in UPDATING is from > 6-FEB-2013 and the revision is 311942. > > Or maybe I misunderstood you? You do. :-) The local _subversion repository_ (I know I'm using incorrent terminology) has a revision number: r######. Which is the same across different versions of FreeBSD. The individual ports _maintained within that repository_ have their individual ports numbers (e.g. libreoffice-3.6.5) ... which also does not vary with the FreeBSD release. One can have libreoffice-3.6.5 and libreoffice 3.5.4 - but those are two separate ports and both work (or should) on 8.3, 9.1, and -CURRENT. If a port has a minimum (or maximum) release of the OS it supports, there a mechanism for figuring that out and DTRT. Or did I misunderstand you? Respectfully, Robert Huff