Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 14:44:52 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Jukka Huvinen <jhuvinen@cc.hut.fi> Subject: Re: Tracking 4-stable rather than 4.8-stable Message-ID: <200305261444.59364.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.50.0305260929210.382232-100000@lyta.hut.fi> References: <3ED12C07.4080102@chez.com> <200305260127.12625.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <Pine.OSF.4.50.0305260929210.382232-100000@lyta.hut.fi>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Monday 26 May 2003 08:38, Jukka Huvinen wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2003, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > Packages for -stable are updated on a regular basis, but only ever so > > often. Don't expect a package to be available in the order of days after > > a port has been upgraded. > > Hello! I'm also confused with getting _stable_ packages. > > How does it actually occur? > > If I update the ports collection with cvsup, it becomes to "current". > (tag=.) I think there is no alternative, tag=RELENG_4 does not fetch the > tree. That's correct. The terminology is confusing, but it's not really complicated: The FreeBSD build cluster basically builds packages for RELENG_4 and 5-CURRENT, for all available platforms, from the same, unified ports-collection. These are mirrored to various ftp sites around the globe. Now look at the directory on FreeBSD's primary ftp server that contains various packages for the i386 platform: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386 . If you compare for example ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.6.2-release/x11 , ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/x11 and ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/x11 , you will notice that they all contain different versions of XFree86-libraries: 4.2.0_1, 4.3.0_1 and 4.3.0_3. This because they all represent different _snapshots_ of the ports collection. So the "stable" packages are not build from a (nonexistent) RELENG_4 ports collection, they just represent a snapshot of the ports collection at a time where FreeBSD's RELENG_4 branch itself is -STABLE (as in uname -a output). As you can see in that ftp directory, this works in a similar fashion for 5.0-RELEASE vs. 5-CURRENT. -- | Michael Nottebrock | KDE on FreeBSD | ,ww | | michaelnottebrock@gmx.net | --- | ,wWWCybaWW_) | | --- | http://freebsd.kde.org | free `WSheepW' | | http://tigress.com/lofi | --- | node II II | [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+0gxLXhc68WspdLARAnvkAJ9FIxzaDaAoxotOGtrWUJwl/yh+MwCeNqk2 pQFLAzcaT6BigkTR+AP/W6s= =h6p/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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