From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 1 13: 9:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-107-187.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.107.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0A2737B404 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B473A66BC9; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:09:11 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Elden Fenison Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jesper Gertz Subject: Re: 4.5 RELEASE and fresh ports Message-ID: <20020601130911.B81251@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020521121620.JQOG23576.fepE.post.tele.dk@fepD.im.tele.dk> <20020531225410.A30049@snoopy.moondog.org> <20020531235442.A60067@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020601003710.A59287@snoopy.moondog.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020601003710.A59287@snoopy.moondog.org>; from efbsd@moondog.org on Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:37:10AM -0700 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 --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:37:10AM -0700, 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. >=20 > Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks very much for the info. :) I'm currently > tracking -stable, but am contemplating switching to -release after 4.6 > is out. One reason for this is that the freebsd web site specifically > advises against "blindly" tracking -stable. And I'm afraid I'm not > nearly technical enough to be of any help reporting bugs other than > screaming HELP!! That pretty much just means "read the -stable mailing list for a few days to look for reports or announcements of problems, and then update to a version from a few days ago since you know it's probably ok" Kris --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8+SnnWry0BWjoQKURAsObAJ9KDPs2YV3a4Wcz7Hsh2Ea6xAgFhwCg35W3 SpSG+ZoUyfPtoWlM1fqxQpw= =vYhe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message