From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 2 13:21:38 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 04FDB16A46B for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 13:21:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from bache.ece.cmu.edu (BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.129.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D518613C489 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 13:21:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from [10.9.204.128] (dsl093-061-215.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.61.215]) by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB44C2; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 09:03:32 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0706020045v1ce69a7bsec4a8dced2a99fe1@mail.gmail.com> 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 09:03:29 -0400 To: Chris , stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: 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: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:21:38 -0000 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