From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 15:37:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7993E16A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:37:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from cultdeadsheep.org (charon.cultdeadsheep.org [80.65.226.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545D843F75 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:37:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org) Received: (qmail 1269 invoked by uid 85); 5 Dec 2003 00:37:44 +0100 Received: from sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org by goofy.cultdeadsheep.org by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20rc2 ( Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 0.087118 secs); 04 Dec 2003 23:37:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO persephone.cultdeadsheep.org) (192.168.0.8) by goofy.cultdeadsheep.org with SMTP; 5 Dec 2003 00:37:43 +0100 Received: (qmail 86935 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2003 00:37:32 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO lucifer.cultdeadsheep.org) (192.168.0.2) by persephone.cultdeadsheep.org with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 5 Dec 2003 00:37:32 +0100 Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:37:45 +0100 From: Clement Laforet To: paul van den bergen Message-Id: <20031205003745.406905f1.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> In-Reply-To: <200312051027.15726.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> References: <200312051027.15726.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> Organization: tH3 cUlt 0f tH3 d3@d sH33p X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: semi-newbie ports question X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:37:49 -0000 On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:27:15 +1100 paul van den bergen wrote: > just curious about how -release, -stable and -current operate wrt > ports. More just a desire to confirm my understanding is correct... > > I suppose that there are 2 port trees, -stable and -current?, so the > shifting target that is ports is relevent to whichever branch you > have. There's only one ports tree. The CVS tree is tagged for each release, to make package building easier and to avoid a too long ports tree lock. (I think) > how far can one be from the most recent -stable and still expect ports > to work? ports are supported only for latest -STABLE and -CURRENT. But generally ports build fine on older versions. clem