From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 5 21:58:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D513106566B for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:58:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9477F8FC13 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:58:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11689 invoked by uid 399); 5 Jan 2010 21:58:51 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 5 Jan 2010 21:58:51 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:58:57 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Cracauer References: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binary packages for releases and portupgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:58:53 -0000 Martin Cracauer wrote: > It's time to bite the bullet. My 1.3 GHz Pentium-M Notebook just > can't keep up with the port building. I need OpenOffice and stuff and > the party is really over at that point. I need something with binary > packages. > > Do I understand that correctly if I run 8.0 release I get to have > prebuilt binaries as recognized by portupgrade? Well, 8-release or 8-stable should both be fine for this purpose, for most packages, with portupgrade or portmaster. My understanding is that we've given up trying to produce packages for openoffice on all branches. > What happens to the minor security updates? Can I follow TRELENG_8_0 > and port portsupgrade recognize this as something that uses 8-release > binary packages? RELENG_8_0 is _exactly_ 8.0-RELEASE, and will never change. If you want 8-stable, RELENG_8 is the way to go. Otherwise you will need to update the tag each time a new security branch is created. hth, Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso