From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 20:15:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC3216A41F for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:15:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD4713C45D for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:15:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so997983uge for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:15:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XTbUsxNi/ZKwLr7Fl0wG0s+J3XCNJyn+dWBRxkQ02XWy6KoX+JcbPs6Z8Fx3E/zDAQqaDUP1o8AJn3Y9jS/dmcW8uOgp4gCxEVmr5c2R1fGqip9xJvOuw17W9Th9DPexdG5Ji8RFinTg+RgMCsEBTHjbLH/2Ux8Ki1JB1sxM/28= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QenPoKi2EOvQZ1mTX7EVWk6vkXepYeloSR+BlPMTtfyQtVyrGCfkm/yQTgJ/1tUObYgjl70TfGE9DIAHn2TUMbagR+sH1kAGWOQMCFM07T5/fQXI7IepNrS6vBSlkHegn9+J96xXDtiDFmx1RAxaz/WIjA9wobeQIcbRzugbbz0= Received: by 10.66.255.7 with SMTP id c7mr3357562ugi.1180988152693; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.24.16 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 13:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0706041315q9e527b7n886dd73997cc5ac5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:15:52 +0100 From: Chris To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <465BF62B.6090904@vwsoft.com> <20070529102929.GA49322@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20070529111757.GE70055@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070529182224.GD8255@soaustin.net> <3aaaa3a0706020045v1ce69a7bsec4a8dced2a99fe1@mail.gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: release cycle X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:15:57 -0000 On 02/06/07, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2007, at 3:45 , Chris wrote: > > > Given that Kris repeatedly tells me and others that the ports system > > is only supported on the latest freebsd release (meaning one has to be > > upgrading freebsd on their servers every few months to get this > > support) if 7.0 and 6.3 are released around the same time will the > > ports tree be supported on both? > > I think you're confused by terminology. As I understand it, the > ports tree is supported on -CURRENT and the latest -STABLE series: > that is, currently on 6.x and 7.x (and possibly 5.x still since > RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 were both being released for a while), but not > RELENG_4 or earlier. > > -- > brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com > system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu > electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH > > > So my question remains when we have 7.0 and 6.3 both STABLE releases will the ports tree not be supported in 6.3 a just released version of FreeBSD? Chris