From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 08:19:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216DB16A41F for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:19:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 467D243D49 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:19:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip01.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.5]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IW300ELMZ4SQUO0@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:19:40 -0400 (AST) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.103]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip01.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:19:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:18:13 -0400 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <015601c6473e$36e5c490$0501a8c0@Mike8500> To: mike@ascendency.net Message-id: <44167C45.40005@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: <015601c6473e$36e5c490$0501a8c0@Mike8500> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060309) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports upgrade policy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:19:15 -0000 Mike Loiterman wrote: > This is my supfile: > > *default host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs > *default tag=RELENG_6_0 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > src-all > > *default tag=. > ports-all > doc-all > > I have been using it like this for years, obviously changing to the latest > release tag. I haven't had problem and I'm not having problems, but my > question is this: > > Is it advisable to sync my source to RELEASE, but to CURRENT for ports? > Typically, I upgade my ports a few days after they get updated so I'm always > running the latest version, but would it be better to sync both ports and > source to RELEASE? > Hi Mike, It would be nice I guess if ports were tagged like src but they are not. Basically HEAD is all there is vis-a-vis tags. You can specify a specific date however. Duane > Obviously, it depends, somewhat, on personal choice, but in terms of > stablity and "correctness" which is better? > > ------------------------------ > Mike Loiterman > grantADLER > Tel: 630-302-4944 > Fax: 773-442-0992 > Email: mike@ascendency.net > PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >