Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:41:58 -0800 From: Michael <bsdquestions@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvsup tag for ports Message-ID: <45CE5846.80002@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070210230636.GA5968@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <45CE41ED.3050900@gmail.com> <20070210230636.GA5968@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:06:37PM -0800, Michael wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm building a production server and I have what may seem to be a very >> simple question so I hope it only requires a simple answer. >> >> As I've studied the FreeBSD Handbook as well as the man pages for this, >> it's still not clear to me which tag I should use for a production server. >> >> For my sources I always use the security branch for the release we are >> using so that they stay stable and also plug most of the security issues >> as they arise and so the sources tag is always RELENG_6_2. >> >> For the ports, the default tag is always tag=. which I'm not sure is the >> best thing for a production server since that's the tab for -CURRENT. >> On one hand it makes sense to track that branch for ports because that's >> where fixes would go for applications as they find them, but I'm not >> convinced this is the best thing for a production server and wonder if I >> should also use the security branch for the ports. >> >> My first question is, does any real security fixes go into the ports >> when you pull from a security branch? In other words, do maintainers >> actually submit fixes to that branch for the ports? >> >> I have a similiar question for the docs as well, should we be tracking >> only the security branch when using cvsup for sources, ports and doc's? >> > > Neither the ports tree nor the docs tree is branched. I.e. there is no > security branch for ports. > On the other hand you are not required to update installed ports/packages > just because you update the ports tree. > > > What do you mean they aren't branched? Of course they are or they wouldn't be in cvs and if I changed the tag, it wouldn't do anything (they wouldn't change on running cvsup), but they do change (ports get deleted/added/edited.), so I'm not following you here. Can you elaborate on what you mean? Thanks, Michael Lawver
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