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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 09:17:37 -0400
From: Tom Rhodes
To: Kris Kennaway
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:24:45 -0700
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Can someone please review/correct my lame markup in the following
> patch?
>
> Kris
>
> Index: ports.inc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /mnt2/ncvs/www/en/ports/ports.inc,v
> retrieving revision 1.65
> diff -u -u -r1.65 ports.inc
> --- ports.inc 22 Feb 2003 22:00:07 -0000 1.65
> +++ ports.inc 11 Jul 2003 22:49:29 -0000
> @@ -6,6 +6,17 @@
> tremendous rate.
>
>
> +The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the
> +FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE branches. Older releases are not
> +supported and may or may not work correctly with an up-to-date ports
> +collection. Over time, changes to the ports collection may rely on
> +features that are not present in older releases. Wherever convenient,
> +we try not to gratuitously break support for recent releases, but it
> +is sometimes unavoidable. When this occurs, patches contributed by
> +the user community to maintain support for older releases will usually
> +be committed.
> +
> +
This looks good to me, Kris.
--
Tom Rhodes