From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Dec 16 08:01:20 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC5DC82FA7 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 08:01:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dch@skunkwerks.at) Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (out3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 32C1A181D for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 08:01:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dch@skunkwerks.at) Received: from compute7.internal (compute7.nyi.internal [10.202.2.47]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5A8209E9 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 03:01:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from web6 ([10.202.2.216]) by compute7.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 16 Dec 2016 03:01:18 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=skunkwerks.at; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=7nlMsvNNc0oEiYiabEqwUorofz 8=; b=qAgmPloOgVsRHlAjHy9DbBs2Qb8F4+PQlsAfK9EYnNbX26pBBBTWcF6/or OlqEPtCf7bcRnkfcL85f5+81Wvr5U8NQQkeIolCjowC35RQAr2GFqMKO4l7IXIxf 4TeXo1g9/tc18zvGgRjrUCNp3l6pZe0Hly3q/NJ5z+iut4Gto= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=7n lMsvNNc0oEiYiabEqwUorofz8=; b=NBa18Xa0VSgLfPhQFZxGFDpWA74ssBHAuq gHGrrcHfybWQQYe7wGrbKCdgq09R5Yf2FfomkH3QBcyuogUef6h1NtYjVqhCY46m EuB9DkOVRJssM+ZJCaMiWF99rz0rTbGdbizE6E0AucWHWziboN53pFOO41T36aVs x1FS2+RsY= X-ME-Sender: Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 9DCCE48001; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 03:01:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1481875278.2027307.820920449.18442D1C@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Dave Cottlehuber To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-bb5bdba7 In-Reply-To: <0b018f88-4b64-67c8-a938-ae45fc19d08f@gjunka.com> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 09:01:18 +0100 References: <7c73fc75-b4d9-063d-02f9-628e06f8d4bd@freebsd.org> <20161207025955.GA21488@Silverstone> <3a97d014-1b8b-7e34-6704-1ee5fd8b97ca@m5p.com> <0b018f88-4b64-67c8-a938-ae45fc19d08f@gjunka.com> Subject: Re: what is the purpose of the quarterly ports branches? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 08:01:20 -0000 On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, at 23:14, Grzegorz Junka wrote: > I heard that ports' SVN is mirrored to Github. Isn't it enough to just > create a branch or tag for each quarterly release? Even if quarterly > packages are deleted, re-building packages from such branch/tag should > allow to recreate those packages as required since the same code would > give the same packages? These branches already exist BTW: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/branches/2016Q3 A+ Dave