From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 11:50: 1 2003 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 C817437B40A for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:49:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-106-48.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.106.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F0643F5B for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:49:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F77866E3D; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:49:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 53B5E165A; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:49:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:49:57 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is the difference between ports for STABLE and CURRENT? Message-ID: <20030123194957.GF60077@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030123112236.GA77802@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pY3vCvL1qV+PayAL" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030123112236.GA77802@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --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