From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 1 9:11:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7424937B401 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:11:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-65.59.67.105.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([65.59.67.105] helo=sparky) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17EBTL-00018b-00; Sat, 01 Jun 2002 09:11:20 -0700 From: Jud To: Elden Fenison Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jesper Gertz Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 12:11:40 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <20020601003710.A59287@snoopy.moondog.org> Message-Id: Subject: Re: 4.5 RELEASE and fresh ports, Kris Kennaway MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1115 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 6/1/2002 3:37:10 AM, Elden Fenison wrote: >* Kris Kennaway [05/31/2002 23:54]: >> Not quite. The ports collection only officially supports -stable and >> -current, so you may run into problems from time to time if the ports >> collection starts making use of new features introduced into newer >> versions of the OS. This doesn't happen very often, but it does >> happen. [snip] >However, your statement here is good reason to track -stable as I >normally don't let my ports get more than 24 hours out of date. 24 hours? What are you afraid of missing? ;-) Updating once every week or two should be plenty. Of course if the base system or a port gets a fix or new capability you've been waiting for, you'll want to update then. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message