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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2013 20:02:51 GMT
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        bf1783@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to move 9.1 ports to HEAD?
Message-ID:  <201302082002.r18K2poG036173@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <CAGFTUwO47Qy6TF=ouDqdxXHKeYOwGVutJ6uDmyKsLT%2Bnx%2B_ThA@mail.gmail.com>

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	From bf1783@googlemail.com Fri Feb  8 17:33:09 2013

	> >  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?

	Yes, it is now branched, and he was probably using the equivalent of:

	http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/branches/RELENG_9_1_0/

	rather than

	http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/

	By the way, Anton, you may wish to use https:// rather than svn:// --
	slightly less efficient, but more secure.

ok, I'll give it a go

Thanks

Anton




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