From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 9:45:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B398937B404 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 09:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g5MGj3r11904; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 12:45:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3D14AB05.9040302@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 12:51:17 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Penn Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade with package References: <20020622102616.A1192@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> <3D144F7F.DBFD24AF@liwing.de> <20020622124135.A1730@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> <20020622130547.GA285@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20020622165612.A6763@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeff Penn wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, Dr Matthew J Seaman wrote: > >>If you're using any version of FreeBSD 4, and so long as you update >>any dependencies appropriately then any packages under >>`packages-4-stable' should work for you. Just because you're running >>RELENG_4_5 doesn't mean that you should only use packages from the >>packages-4.5-release directory. In fact, if you're concerned about >>security you definitely shouldn't limit yourself to just those >>packages, or you won't pick up on security or other bug fixes. > > Thanks for the detailed explaination: > > This suggests that ports require a tag similar to sources, but section > A.7 of the FreeBSD handbook states: > > Note: The ports tree does not have any tag associated with it, > it is always CURRENT. > > Where do I specify which branch to use for my ports/packages? You're getting confused about what ports and packages are. First off, they're not the same thing. I would reread the handbook section on ports/packages. This page is particularly informative for you: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x4300.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message