Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:31:56 +0700 From: Erich <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, Adam Strohl <adams-freebsd@ateamsystems.com> Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1541214.ZfRdXxb0Qe@x220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <20120605060950.GC32448@lonesome.com> References: <C480320C-0CD9-4B61-8AFB-37085C820AB7@FreeBSD.org> <2188078.y2TVGRxzTH@x220.ovitrap.com> <20120605060950.GC32448@lonesome.com>
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Hi, On 05 June 2012 1:09:50 Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:00:45PM +0700, Erich wrote: > > 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 > > branched. > > If you create a branch, you must create a tag for that branch. > > However, you can create a tag without creating a branch. That is what > is done for the ports tree. > I found now the location where this information is missing for beginners. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html I simply cannot believe that beginners would expect this information to find this in the section for updating the kernel. Erich
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