From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 7 16:25:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BEC37B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:24:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f180OSg70754; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:24:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:24:27 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stable and devel ports Message-ID: <20010207162427.A70586@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010207225305.C2444@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010207225305.C2444@snark.ptc.spbu.ru>; from uwe@ptc.spbu.ru on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:53:05PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:53:05PM +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote: > Porter's handbook doesn't seem to touch this topic. What are the best > current practice for maintaining a stable and a -devel versions of a > port? Are any special arrangements to allow them to live side by side > desirable or one can safely assume that its stable XOR devel. Personally I'd like them to be called -snapshot, so -devel and mean a package used in developement. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message