From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 12 17:12:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E02B15F17 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 17:12:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 10hj72-0003pR-00; Wed, 12 May 1999 17:12:32 -0700 Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:12:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: lambert@cswnet.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happenned to the INN-1.7.2 port?? In-Reply-To: <199905122035.PAA51781@troi.csw.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 May 1999 lambert@cswnet.com wrote: > Enough stuff has changed in INN 2.2 that my Managing USENET book doesn't > help much. Can I readd the old INN-1.7.2 port as maybe INN-1.7.2 in my > ports tree somehow? Or do I get to go back to the 19990218-SNAP of > -STABLE? cvsup can be used to checkout source code as it was on a particular date. > Do I need to not follow -STABLE for production machines? I was hoping > following -STABLE would improve the stability/security of my production > machines. It's bit me in the *** twice this week. I started trying to > keep -STABLE last week after thinking about it for several months before. Yes, but there is no -stable for ports. -stable is purely a OS branch. The ports people only maintain one branch. I would watch the freebsd-ports lists if you want to cvsup the ports tree. > Maybe tracking -STABLE requires that you have several years of *nix admin > experience? I have about six months experience. > > Thanks in advance, > Scott Lambert Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message