From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 5 01:51:16 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1909B3A; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 01:51:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D8392284; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 01:51:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 885F421FE0; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 20:51:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:51:15 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :references:to; s=smtpout; bh=VhjLu3s/qsoRbFRGGjrrQgT67Yk=; b=Id UBG4Kmt+VR8b3r1pRN+GAQVPxfeDfcxmYIHS5zX7C+TcwwB8+EJyS46Uxgm0o2If PqBlZPfIJBudt4U9e8SQE0ac9+sw8yI095LsDx981eTNqlky9MpLhhjp/hEFpavT LKiR7Hb1K9zlCseP6/1BcMaylLzhN2cHtY4udB1Vo= X-Sasl-enc: qnRXvdm1PkKhCgQ6vZxEGRi7Uz5Rt2uK1ezBns5AJQSB 1383616275 Received: from [172.16.1.145] (unknown [68.117.126.78]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B876B6804E7; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 20:51:14 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.0 \(1811\)) Subject: Re: pkgng: how to upgrade a single port? From: Mark Felder In-Reply-To: <81B1C865-2FE9-40B1-92DE-25A0869854E3@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 19:51:13 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <3E083FEB-F959-4451-A1BB-F36A696A35D6@FreeBSD.org> References: <527406D2.7010200@intertainservices.com> <1383336649.16326.41750369.298F8E9D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1383337118.18823.41752849.2502EBFD@webmail.messagingengine.com> <5277E53A.4090208@intertainservices.com> <3884C60E-FFEC-413C-901E-631E2862984B@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <0AD00FF2-8F68-432D-BC7F-9672AD173163@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <81B1C865-2FE9-40B1-92DE-25A0869854E3@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: Paul Mather X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1811) Cc: Adrian Chadd , FreeBSD Stable , Mike Jakubik X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 01:51:16 -0000 On Nov 4, 2013, at 19:02, Paul Mather wrote: > I have always admired the NetBSD pkgsrc Quarterly releases, which is = close to getting a -STABLE package set on *BSD. Has there ever been = discussion of a slower-moving Ports set for FreeBSD that only gets = security updates? That would be a nice middle ground between the glacial = progress of RHEL Yum packages and the -CURRENT like Ports as it is right = now. The only thing stopping that is manpower. We don=92t have it. Please = feel free to join the ports team and scratch that itch. However, we = already have enough architectural work ahead of us and PRs to sift = through that it probably isn=92t feasible at this point in time.=