From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Nov 25 16:05:13 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE2046DD1D for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:05:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sasha.vigole@vigole.com) Received: from LH016.irandns.com (lh016.irandns.com [185.4.29.200]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Ch5MB34Q6z3hZh for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:05:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sasha.vigole@vigole.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=vigole.com; s=x; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject:Reply-To:Sender:Cc:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=vlqgWaKlU895/BLLK/tKdqBOdsM55uCN5EAlZO4ysGo=; b=PLOSxJ/rd/ym216tB33MJEeUU4 qJ01lqABSDQ+FUigTWEO66SbeoEc45z1lp2PUPxYvuYk1aBgEgeZmSFPKNOY9QYbNM9EBhRHMsXoy tn+f4C/w5S56xs/rItqFGDuqmALcQqGXFetMtcxL3bPGFj/yVNJIrnJRURjPxDx71SQcWa09IrdKT XXMDH7cCiLLf48at7rQCWYrbOtn8I0MAVW+57FWjM1uzyl8O9dRjyPB9y3Gxy1Al2jj87boHcYNSF K/0fLAdhjsfCAlWbKnaIBypPJw+X+CQmW+iZh5DUNMA83+kAOKroXjG2OdFjkccYnr0sk7Qk3taQf /CjWmOIA==; Received: from [31.2.156.122] (helo=[192.168.0.101]) by LH016.irandns.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.93.0.4) (envelope-from ) id 1khxI6-0001oM-Mb for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:35:10 +0330 Reply-To: sasha.vigole@vigole.com Subject: Re: Choosing the right FreeBSD branch to test and maintain ports and docs To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <8032509a-3377-6589-4e7b-2229a551af65@vigole.com> From: sasha vigole Organization: vigole Message-ID: <1569cb7b-aed7-2124-6edf-45509578b952@vigole.com> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:35:04 +0330 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Id: sasha.vigole@vigole.com X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Ch5MB34Q6z3hZh X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=vigole.com header.s=x header.b=PLOSxJ/r; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of sasha.vigole@vigole.com designates 185.4.29.200 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=sasha.vigole@vigole.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.50 / 15.00]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[sasha.vigole@vigole.com]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+a]; REPLYTO_ADDR_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[vigole.com:+]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[185.4.29.200:from]; ASN(0.00)[asn:61173, ipnet:185.4.29.0/24, country:IR]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[vigole.com:s=x]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[vigole.com]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[185.4.29.200:from:127.0.2.255]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:05:13 -0000 >> should I build a testing FreeBSD machine, and maintain them on: >> 1. base/head branch >> 2. base/stable/12 branch >> 3. base/releng/12.2 >> or it's irrelevant. > Because of trouble with ethernet and wireless support in FreeBSD 12-stable and 13, and a subsequent update going only to the HEAD, I decided to go no furhter with FreeBSD 12.x. > So I vote for the current branch, which offers more hope for getting needed improvements. > Tom Currently, I'm using base/head on my testing machine (/src /doc /ports). But there's following sentence in the "Contributing to FreeBSD" article: "FreeBSD only guarantees that the Ports Collection works on the -STABLE" That has raised doubts about, whether I should change my testing setups. -- .sasha.vigole#mithras:arsakiden.