From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 09:56:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76DB2106564A for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 09:56:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com (mail-lb0-f182.google.com [209.85.217.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25A88FC15 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 09:56:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbon10 with SMTP id n10so4784818lbo.13 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 02:56:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=th4Q8OyBZn2kIBy8jMh2r2pvrmXqFRYUVwBDJ7um7Ek=; b=Bq53jKDs4o0yScUSsk0wgf3QI504aiMYnLxI7cS3v5t459eZv2o2Z26womxM73F8a8 kCkIGftJX0gCI/4/0JDvRUmOxIjgeNIKIHeOrsSQSrYGFaWK3CQP5VQVs7bBJFxPZ+H4 JfAXhgkjseZJCsiMeHfQ7Y+O0Qi0V5mnbhFP2zNKS3UununCxTOu5FDCtvEz+HRMpRJc relFc5E9C0muHSpgBTASL1ttYOwAzO/ovRx9lQsxW30TAyJkcDKU5Mh8UUxBUcMy4vWY 6Ihc30Ec/rUsLRU7GwQpNWqZnNUS+GyjBqI+Rh0feM6a0In0LoFfauDZHQc3qD30XiKS B82A== Received: by 10.112.98.40 with SMTP id ef8mr7889267lbb.72.1338890187627; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 02:56:27 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.30.73 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 02:55:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1616421.P4c92lAp56@x220.ovitrap.com> References: <1616421.P4c92lAp56@x220.ovitrap.com> From: Chris Rees Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:55:57 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 83QH0rDkYTmnSfPmp3CTb4-_l58 Message-ID: To: Erich , freebsd-current Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:56:29 -0000 On 5 June 2012 09:25, Erich wrote: > Hi, > > On 05 June 2012 3:08:17 b. f. wrote: >> > On 05 June 2012 15:33:16 Mark Andrews wrote: >> > > >> > > In message <2490439.EC638TI0j3 at x220.ovitrap.com>, Erich writes: >> > > > Hi, >> > > > >> > All of these, with the exception of HEAD (which is always a valid tag)= , only apply to the src/ tree. The ports/, doc/, and www/ trees are not bra= nched. >> > >> > I understand this that I can use these tags on the FreeBSD sources but= not on the ports. >> > >> > I never tried this on the ports. >> >> I sent a long reply to your earlier message on freebsd-ports >> explaining exactly this -- how each Ports tree snapshot has a version >> number: the date spec. =A0Also, how a few special snapshots also have a >> second version number: the release tag. =A0I also explained how to find >> and use these, with and without cvs. =A0Am I wasting my time by trying >> to answer your questions, E.? > > I think that you missed my point. The point is that this has to be made a= vailable for beginners. As long as the handbook states that this does not a= pply to the ports tree, at least beginners will stop there. "Beginners" should be using packages anyway. It is absolutely a bad idea for "beginners" to be using tagged/dated ports trees-- they are not supported and will lead to many complaints about problems that were solved since the tag. Chris