Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:22:58 +0100 From: Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binary packages for releases and portupgrade Message-ID: <c1a0d1561001060422n42ff1b0bm7b159870eab63a03@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B43C0F1.1060404@FreeBSD.org> References: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> <20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org> <4B43C0F1.1060404@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. > I do not agree on this one. RELENG_8_0 is the correct tag for following FreeBSD 8.0 with security fixes. RELENG_8_0_0_RELEASE on the other hand is fixed. RELENG_8_1 will be the branch for FreeBSD 8.1. -- chs,
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