On 2 June 2012 10:42, Erich Dollansky <er...@alogreentechnologies.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 02 June 2012 AM 9:14:28 Chris Rees wrote: >> On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, "Erich Dollansky" <er...@alogreentechnologies.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > But I have to mention one disadvantage. The ports are in no way linked to >> the releases. This leads to situations in which a small change in a basic >> library will result in a complete update of the installed ports. I >> expressed this already many time here. It would be of advantage if the >> ports tree would also have tags like the base system itself. >> > >> >> Unfortunately this is a massive amount of extra work - we only just keep up >> with updates as it is. > > I do not think so. At least not for the first step as I see it. Just make > snapshots of the ports tree when the release comes out. These snapshots are > with the releases anyway. > > What I did was very simple. I got the ports tree that comes with the release > and installed the system back to the release status. Ok, it was some work for > me - maybe not for others - to find this tree. > > A simple link could help here. > > I do not know if this is just an opinion which is too optimistic. > > What I know is that all the security fixes which appeared since the release > are not in there. If I have the choice between three days or more of > compiling and known security holes, I will take the security holes, make the > client happy and upgrade after the work for the client is finished. > > I would not expect that FreeBSD will provide more than this.
Then you already have all you need-- RELEASEs use packages compiled at time of release if you use pkg_add -r, and the ports tree is tagged at release if you wish to get a 'snapshot'. Note that you will not get any official support if you choose to use a tagged tree :) Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
