From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 5 22:45:00 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 EDE32106568B for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 22:45:00 +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 A14EE8FC19 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 22:45:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 22537 invoked by uid 399); 5 Jan 2010 22:45:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.110?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 5 Jan 2010 22:45:00 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B43C0F1.1060404@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:45:05 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Cracauer References: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> <20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <20100105222134.GA18040@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 22:45:01 -0000 Martin Cracauer wrote: > Doug Barton wrote on Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:58:57PM -0800: > Are you saying there are binary packages for 8-stable? > > I thought I can only have them for -RELEASE? There have always been binary packages for the -stable branches. For example check out ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/. > RELENG_8 will lift be out of binary ports, at least as far as > portupgrade is concerned. Sorry, I don't understand that sentence. > RELENG_8_0 will have emergency fixes AFAIK I'm sorry, that's not correct. RELENG_8_0 is a fixed point in time. The 8.0 -p1 security branch will be RELENG_8_1, etc. > and I was hoping that I > could run that and make portupgrade to the right thing (recognize the > binary packages a insert them appropriately). If you run a -RELEASE portupgrade will stick to the packages created for the -RELEASE, and will never change. If you intend to follow the ports tree as it updates you should really be following FreeBSD stable, and portupgrade will do the right thing. > If we have binary packages for 8-stable and/or if I can coerce > portupgrade to use 8-release packages on 8-stable that would be fine, > too. If you want 8-release packages, you don't have to do anything different, those packages will never change. hope this helps, 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