From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 2 2: 9:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A23337B67D for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 02:09:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 90335 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Feb 2001 10:09:05 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:09:05 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Anatoly Karp Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q] ports vs ports-stable Message-ID: <20010202120905.B89998@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <200102020603.f12632p34934@tolik.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102020603.f12632p34934@tolik.localdomain>; from karp@math.wisc.edu on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:03:02AM -0600 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 2001-02-02 (00:03), Anatoly Karp wrote: > Hello all, > > I am tracking -STABLE sources branch, but being > relatively new to FreeBSD I am somewhat confused > about a sound ports tracking strategy. Namely, > > 1) is it true that, at any given moment, > a particular port may not work properly > (on a -STABLE box)? > > 2) if so, is there a way for me to adjust > my "ports-supfile" to only track "stable" > ports? > > (in particluar, I noticed the existence of > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports-stable/ > > - is this what I want?) As to 1, yes, it's possible a port may not work properly. It isn't particularly common. As to 2, no, there is only one ports collection which you can cvsup. And no, you don't want that. If you want packages, there're generally packages of currently non-building ports from previous package runs available. pkg_add -r will automagically find the right package for your system. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message