From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 16 9: 2:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com [24.176.204.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 248E537B419 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:02:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAGH2Yv53821; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:02:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200111161702.fAGH2Yv53821@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mike Meyer Cc: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (H), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup of ports, then what? In-Reply-To: <15349.4072.631925.479282@guru.mired.org> References: <15348.63980.371923.848952@guru.mired.org> <20011116135450.A18901@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> <15349.4072.631925.479282@guru.mired.org> Comments: In-reply-to Mike Meyer message dated "Fri, 16 Nov 2001 07:08:56 -0600." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1712315896P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:02:34 -0800 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 --==_Exmh_1712315896P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Mike Meyer wrote: > H types: > > 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. > > My believe - and since I'm not the one doing it, take this for what > it's worth - is that ports are tested on both -STABLE and -CURRENT, > but not against -RELEASE. Most will work properly against -RELEASE, > but it's not supported. I'll go one further than that...I'll say that the *vast majority* of ports will work just fine on the previous -RELEASE of FreeBSD. I don't know anyone who deliberately goes out of their way to make a port such that it *can't* be run on older -RELEASEs. > If you're offering to provide that support, great. Start testing them > and reporting the problems. If not - well, there are lots of things > that people would like to see in FreeBSD that aren't happening for > lack of manpower. There are some cases where this isn't going to happen. One example (someone correct me if I'm wrong) is emulators/linux_base-7, which, as I understand it, *requires* additional support in Linux emulation that only exists in -CURRENT and fairly recent 4-STABLE. (As at least one person pointed out, 4.5-RELEASE will essentially be a future snapshot of 4-STABLE.) Bruce. --==_Exmh_1712315896P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE79Uap2MoxcVugUsMRAjyqAJ45DLLnLOWIaQakbbsW2L49s7ZH/QCgl4FA 3WrAuztjraAXhimWuP68Lbk= =Sq6s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1712315896P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message