From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 16 5:13:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alogis.com (firewall.solit-ag.de [212.184.102.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4159237B417 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 05:13:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from alogis.com (kipp@clausthal.int1.b.intern [10.1.1.30]) by alogis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id fAGDDaB76902; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:13:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from holger.kipp@alogis.com) Message-ID: <3BF50E78.8EF56D88@alogis.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:02:48 +0100 From: Holger Kipp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.13 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: H Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup of ports, then what? References: <15348.63980.371923.848952@guru.mired.org> <20011116135450.A18901@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG H wrote: > > Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Ports are supposed to run on -STABLE and -CURRENT, and > > generally run on everything from that branch without to much trouble. > > I would like to see that ports are supposed to run on -RELEASE as well. > A typical production machine follows -RELEASE (no new holy wars now > please) but should be able to use a cvsupped ports collection to run the > latest programs. Hi, -RELEASE is just denoting a specific point in the -STABLE-Branch. (That's where the CDs are produced and the minor number is increased). Usually cvsupped ports should work on -RELEASE, but sometimes a later -STABLE might provide some bugfixes or additions needed for the latest cvsupped port. (Hope this doesn't count as holy war already ;-) Regards, Holger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message