From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 05:45:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B0A37B408 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 05:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.129.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A51743FA3 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 05:45:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (pc2-105.intern.meitner [10.3.12.105]) by meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 153171675C1; Mon, 26 May 2003 14:45:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kiste.my.domain (kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h4QCixna093128 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 26 May 2003 14:45:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 14:44:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <3ED12C07.4080102@chez.com> <200305260127.12625.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_Lxg0+tbqMFik3ut"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200305261444.59364.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: Jukka Huvinen Subject: Re: Tracking 4-stable rather than 4.8-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 12:45:06 -0000 --Boundary-02=_Lxg0+tbqMFik3ut Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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=3D.) I think there is no alternative, tag=3DRELENG_4 does not fetch = the > tree. That's correct. The terminology is confusing, but it's not really complicat= ed:=20 The FreeBSD build cluster basically builds packages for RELENG_4 and=20 5-CURRENT, for all available platforms, from the same, unified=20 ports-collection. These are mirrored to various ftp sites around the globe.= =20 Now look at the directory on FreeBSD's primary ftp server that contains=20 various packages for the i386 platform:=20 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386 . If you compare for example=20 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 wi= ll=20 notice that they all contain different versions of XFree86-libraries:=20 4.2.0_1, 4.3.0_1 and 4.3.0_3. This because they all represent different=20 _snapshots_ of the ports collection. So the "stable" packages are not build from a (nonexistent) RELENG_4 ports= =20 collection, they just represent a snapshot of the ports collection at a tim= e=20 where FreeBSD's RELENG_4 branch itself is -STABLE (as in uname -a output). = As=20 you can see in that ftp directory, this works in a similar fashion for=20 5.0-RELEASE vs. 5-CURRENT. =2D-=20 | Michael Nottebrock | KDE on FreeBSD | ,ww | | michaelnottebrock@gmx.net | --- | ,wWWCybaWW_) | | --- | http://freebsd.kde.org | free `WSheepW' | | http://tigress.com/lofi | --- | node II II | --Boundary-02=_Lxg0+tbqMFik3ut Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+0gxLXhc68WspdLARAnvkAJ9FIxzaDaAoxotOGtrWUJwl/yh+MwCeNqk2 pQFLAzcaT6BigkTR+AP/W6s= =h6p/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_Lxg0+tbqMFik3ut--