From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 3 17:25:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4362775 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2012 17:25:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lumiwa@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ia0-f182.google.com (mail-ia0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927978FC08 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2012 17:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k10so4405864iag.13 for ; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:25:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=xD1PnQ1FA+jUsA0/gFcgnHcPNAQiveRHmZItniYSsm0=; b=fEPDB0zlp1SS5YLoxMve1euxGEMqXRZVXZORm16GcrWsYzkNj4yroL6re1J/5rJFt/ ojbQM6WmC/iPcYJGt52SPRXQbp+6ophGV2tmVY/Fd2lOFCNDyyueq93cQUY6qC8EYAjP o4pj66rVnvrLFBZ1/R7fsKgUijoxaHBdfQbI+XukfrRujHiAZAdE/TDmuKmzywfbQRzO fUAWRvaREkg//9+SSYLCP/lodPSTk+W8uORtBMUullDszBvS3apAkBSLZbUbr82fCqAJ R2kbepxNvlQSm927Dl13UErURisarNnYRtQjfifMIULF4tpEseUuvErL+6U9SAKhxkRK /eJQ== Received: by 10.50.0.171 with SMTP id 11mr1654549igf.14.1351963521565; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:25:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luna.wi.rr.com (cpe-184-58-138-79.wi.res.rr.com. [184.58.138.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id uj11sm1762952igb.15.2012.11.03.10.25.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:25:21 -0700 (PDT) From: ajtiM To: Polytropon Subject: Re: before new version Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 12:25:12 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.1-RC3; KDE/4.8.4; i386; ; ) References: <201211031123.12664.lumiwa@gmail.com> <20121103181835.bb93d5d4.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20121103181835.bb93d5d4.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201211031225.12632.lumiwa@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:25:22 -0000 On Saturday 03 November 2012 12:18:35 Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 11:23:12 -0500, ajtiM wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Could someone explain, please why ports should be frozen before a new > > version of FreeBSD came out? > > The idea is to make sure that RELEASE can be shipped with > installation media (CD, DVD) for offline use which requires > ports mostly to be tested and working in some specific state, > and then the packages (those you can access on the installation > media) are generated from them. It's handy for systems that > do not have Internet access to install software off-line. > > > It happened all the time and after update (if you update or not) there > > are so many ports for updating. In case for very long waiting for > > version 9.1 will be thousands of them. > > That could probably be. Most users who have Internet access > and run servers (and also home systems) will tend to update > the OS beyond RELEASE and also do so with the ports collection, > or alternatively also use pkg_add -r from the Latest/ directory > instead of RELEASE (which _always_ contains the ports generated > from the frozen ports tree). Thank you very much. BTW: packages are almost all the time outdated. Mitja -------- http://www.redbubble.com/people/lumiwa