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Date:      Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:16:57 +0200
From:      Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SVN RELEASE_9_2_0
Message-ID:  <20131001111657.GE82824@droso.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20131001121442.40337dc0@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <2E.C1.15529.0227A425@cdptpa-oedge01> <20131001121442.40337dc0@gumby.homeunix.com>

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On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 12:14:42PM +0100, RW wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:56:32 +0000
> Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 
> > # Is FreeBSD doing something new?  I don't see an SVN tag for ports
> > for # the 9.2 release.  Historically the ports tree was tagged and
> > built a # little before -stable got tagged for release.
> >  
> > # Thanks,
> > # Jason
> > 
> > Ports don't belong to a specific FreeBSD version.
> > 
> > It's the built packages that are prepared shortly before release.
> > 
> > For the ports and doc trees, you would go for head (current).
> 
> He's not talking about a branch. It was a tag that allowed one to fetch
> the snapshot of the ports tree that was included on the release CDs and
> from which the release packages were built.

Just check out the branch with subversion like you would checkout the
tag with cvs.

Erwin

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