From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 2 06:41:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6468E106566B for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 06:41:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D2A8FC19 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 06:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1MijXa-000M50-0x; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:41:58 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov To: Chris References: <20090901171553.446cdfa5@chris.makeworld.com> <67860391@bb.ipt.ru> <20090902002518.1c874530@chris.makeworld.com> <35693951@bb.ipt.ru> <20090902010854.386d44d4@chris.makeworld.com> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:42:02 +0400 In-Reply-To: <20090902010854.386d44d4@chris.makeworld.com> (Chris's message of "Wed, 2 Sep 2009 01:08:54 -0500") Message-ID: <53615301@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:41:59 -0000 On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 01:08:54 -0500 Chris wrote: > On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:50:08 +0400 > Boris Samorodov wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:25:18 -0500 Chris wrote: > > > Thanks - although, this seems a moot point if one sticks with > > > RELEASE (until a point release that is I suppose). > > > > Packges are build for STABLE as well: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ > I do realize this however, if one stays with RELEASE (and not deal with > the possible (I did say possible) headaches of a changing base system) > then (as I read it from the Handbook) updating packages is moot. They > won't change until the next point release. The thing is that those packages (called FreeBSD-stable-packages) can (and imo) should be used with RELEASE either. The ports tree is always HEAD. And -stable- for packages means only that they were build after -release- packages. -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve