Hi, On 02 June 2012 PM 10:52:48 Chris Rees wrote: > On 2 June 2012 10:42, Erich Dollansky <er...@alogreentechnologies.com> wrote: > > 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'.
I have it. Yes, but how difficult is this to get for others? > > Note that you will not get any official support if you choose to use a > tagged tree :) When you can chose between a running system and a supported system which does not work, which would you take? Erich _______________________________________________ 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"
