From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 22:08:04 2005 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 3EDEE16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:08:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from server.alexdupre.com (host245-49.pool8288.interbusiness.it [82.88.49.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221FA43D5D for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:08:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ale@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.0.101] (thunder.alexdupre.com [192.168.0.101]) j0IM80IS004777; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:08:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ale@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <41ED88C0.1090805@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:08:00 +0100 From: Alex Dupre User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Coffman References: <6f9c15f8050118105132e37e02@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6f9c15f8050118105132e37e02@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: port versions 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: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:08:04 -0000 Bill Coffman wrote: > My friend, who is an expert in Linux, but not FreeBSD, told me that > the "a" meant that this is alpha code. Is this correct? Seems wrong > to me. It is wrong. In MySQL case an appended "a" means that the tarball has been repackaged to fix a small bug in release (and 4.1 serie is production quality. -- Alex Dupre