Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 04:44:18 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: what is the purpose of the quarterly ports branches? Message-ID: <7c73fc75-b4d9-063d-02f9-628e06f8d4bd@freebsd.org>
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they are effectively useless because the results are not archived, and the quarterly pkg branch actually changes day by day, so making two machines from the same quarterly branch can give you different machines (making it useless for paying work) not to mention that if you use the quarterly pkg branch you run he risk of it completely changing if you happen to be unlucky enough to be doing it across a quarterly boundary. then you end up with a completely messed up system. (from experience). SO a couple of things.. new quarterly pkg releases should have different names and be pointed to by a symlink or something. Other wise you can't avoid the smashed system problem. (half the pkgs from one quarter and the other half from the previous one, which you can't find any more. But the big question still remains.. What do you think you are solving and why are they changing? shouldn't a snapshot be stable?
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