Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:49:57 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is the difference between ports for STABLE and CURRENT? Message-ID: <20030123194957.GF60077@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030123112236.GA77802@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20030123112236.GA77802@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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--pY3vCvL1qV+PayAL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:22:36AM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >=20 > Hi all, >=20 > I was just reading the announcement about OpenOffice packages being relea= sed > for 4.7 and 5.0. What are the differences between ports for these two > releases? In general, how is a port for the CURRENT branch different fro= m a > port for STABLE? Packages are built from the (single) ports collection. The same port is compiled for 4.x or 5.x to make the package. Some ports may behave slightly differently on 4.x and 5.x (e.g. depending on the perl package on 5.0, since it was removed from the base OS). Kris --pY3vCvL1qV+PayAL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+MEdlWry0BWjoQKURAq7pAKDrGOgCCaEPu9ylNCx48N4C4dg2BgCg7+0s NosBEydJ3yy2F1bcxfZaNL0= =D9S0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pY3vCvL1qV+PayAL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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