From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 10 23:41:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879B516A402 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:41:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsdquestions@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA5213C441 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:41:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsdquestions@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f47so609820pye for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:41:58 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=UtpRvBghPenisZtyDQTDFqlLyE7OSvTm4v/yxHQt+nNXSn+WhwDnZdfRazlahxDZ2xZ5rSMYN7xYhYic0+H7jVMwH9Nd+43m7Sdwm80CdwTEujCMGcvDgpgIYSO0RT5K+joAza2EY0/xuMc5WKIYlbsR8FhCZETu26VVa95ljf8= Received: by 10.35.51.19 with SMTP id d19mr29134099pyk.1171150918476; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.2? ( [71.59.152.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 6sm26467341nzn.2007.02.10.15.41.57; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:41:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45CE5846.80002@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:41:58 -0800 From: Michael User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD - Questions References: <45CE41ED.3050900@gmail.com> <20070210230636.GA5968@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20070210230636.GA5968@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: cvsup tag for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:41:59 -0000 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