Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:05:35 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Release schedules Message-ID: <4944077F.9000701@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20081212155145.1618810a@scorpio> References: <200811121259.25046.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <20081112120147.GA62386@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <f2c294a10812120920l4d11bebfgd5c9208336b075b@mail.gmail.com> <18754.42851.295211.155980@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4ad871310812121028m4e368da4n69e06d592e312eb0@mail.gmail.com> <26ddd1750812121113o1590d54r9962ec3d22a20bdb@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310812121128y18db1c19n8aa45dcc75794739@mail.gmail.com> <26ddd1750812121149r6581ace1gec21e415afe3deca@mail.gmail.com> <f2c294a10812121220r78835060n5ed756051e92d916@mail.gmail.com> <20081212155145.1618810a@scorpio>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Jerry wrote: > My biggest gripe with the entire update schedule is that the ports > freeze has been frozen longer than my wife. Maybe having two separate > ports, one for the current version and one for the RC? version might > work better. I have never fully understood why the ports had to be > frozen anyway. Why can there not be two separate entities, the current > version and the beta one? Ports aren't actually frozen at the moment. Neither are they completely open for any sort of updates. Instead they're in a 'slush' -- no sweeping changes permitted, no major changes to the infrastructure (ie. bsd.ports.mk, that sort of thing). This allows the RELEASE_7_1_0 tag to be slid forward in the event of critical or security updates to specific ports. For instance, see: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/databases/phpmyadmin/Makefile?only_with_tag=RELEASE_7_1_0 That update was committed two days ago, and as it's a security update it has been tagged as RELEASE_7_1_0, so will in principle appear on the 7.1-isos. (I can't remember if phpmyadmin actually is one of the packages available on the install CDs or not. Given its popularity, quite possibly.) Docs are in a similar 'slush' state, but in this case it's primarily to allow the various translation teams to synch the various language versions to the original language the docco was written in (almost always English, but not entirely) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAklEB4UACgkQ8Mjk52CukIx7hwCggSj46Zigeb0DsSNXX1LdRTL6 p2kAnjUaN91OmX0l42iVT5nD3M55WeRS =LMR/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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