On Saturday 03 November 2012 12:18:35 Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 11:23:12 -0500, ajtiM wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Could someone explain, please why ports should be frozen before a new > > version of FreeBSD came out? > > The idea is to make sure that RELEASE can be shipped with > installation media (CD, DVD) for offline use which requires > ports mostly to be tested and working in some specific state, > and then the packages (those you can access on the installation > media) are generated from them. It's handy for systems that > do not have Internet access to install software off-line. > > > It happened all the time and after update (if you update or not) there > > are so many ports for updating. In case for very long waiting for > > version 9.1 will be thousands of them. > > That could probably be. Most users who have Internet access > and run servers (and also home systems) will tend to update > the OS beyond RELEASE and also do so with the ports collection, > or alternatively also use pkg_add -r from the Latest/ directory > instead of RELEASE (which _always_ contains the ports generated > from the frozen ports tree).
Thank you very much. BTW: packages are almost all the time outdated. Mitja -------- http://www.redbubble.com/people/lumiwa _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
