From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 15:10:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0255A16A429 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:10:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108E843D45 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:10:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t5so745504wxc for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:10:15 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=g8v5ttM89MRJ9754nXcTpxZrciIGjpC1u7q5XR0fCnId7xvlKnB7oykPqMQ3DOxrlYsU+i1dZxlrAJbyq4Hx7mBlN0530zhd5auZ9fG7T123eMWcQ0vU8D7re88ZC9a5mOJmkItV6rMlTlkR+KgXxRsTYIKilugT3ZLCJo7sfAA= Received: by 10.70.29.4 with SMTP id c4mr665932wxc; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:10:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.65.9 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:10:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:10:15 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Ow Mun Heng" In-Reply-To: <1141117550.12944.36.camel@neuromancer.home.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1141117550.12944.36.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: release tag for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:10:17 -0000 On 2/28/06, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > > Another FreeBSD Newbie question pertaining to ports. > > based on the example ports-supfile > in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile > > [snip] > *default release=3Dcvs tag=3D. > [/snip] > > What I would like to know if there are any other versions of the ports. > meaning, say eg: programA, there is version 1.0, 1.0.2, 1.1 etc.. > > Is there such thing as RELENG_6 RELENG_6_1 or something like this? Or is > there only going to be 1 and only 1 version of ports? (I think there > _is_ an option, only that I don't know. I've searched through the > handbook, but I've only found references to the example ports-supfile > with the "tag=3D.") > > let's take gnome as an example, there's version 2.10/2.12/2.13 etc. Do > I,the user, have a choice to be able to upgrade to any of the 3 versions > as I see fit? > > Thanks. > > I'll google it up when I get home to an I-net connection. > > -- > Ow Mun Heng > Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM > 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! > Neuromancer 16:44:52 up 3 days, 19:21, 5 users, load average: 0.54, > 0.53, 0.50 > > Short version, No. Ports, docs, etc. do not have -RELEASE tags, when you cvsup ports you always get what would be the equivalent of cvsup'ing you system up with -CURRENT, hence the dot for the release tag. You can however cvsup to a specific date and time in the passed if you use something like this "*default date=3D2005.10.25.00.00.00", all the zero's are for time (GMT, 24 hour clock). Longer version that says the same thing: http://groups.google.com/group/list.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/= d098d124350a933b/ -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/