If memory serves me right, Mike Meyer wrote: > H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > > Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Ports are supposed to run on -STABLE and -CURRENT, and > > > generally run on everything from that branch without to much trouble. > > I would like to see that ports are supposed to run on -RELEASE as well. > > A typical production machine follows -RELEASE (no new holy wars now > > please) but should be able to use a cvsupped ports collection to run the > > latest programs. > > My believe - and since I'm not the one doing it, take this for what > it's worth - is that ports are tested on both -STABLE and -CURRENT, > but not against -RELEASE. Most will work properly against -RELEASE, > but it's not supported.
I'll go one further than that...I'll say that the *vast majority* of ports will work just fine on the previous -RELEASE of FreeBSD. I don't know anyone who deliberately goes out of their way to make a port such that it *can't* be run on older -RELEASEs. > If you're offering to provide that support, great. Start testing them > and reporting the problems. If not - well, there are lots of things > that people would like to see in FreeBSD that aren't happening for > lack of manpower. There are some cases where this isn't going to happen. One example (someone correct me if I'm wrong) is emulators/linux_base-7, which, as I understand it, *requires* additional support in Linux emulation that only exists in -CURRENT and fairly recent 4-STABLE. (As at least one person pointed out, 4.5-RELEASE will essentially be a future snapshot of 4-STABLE.) Bruce.
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