On 2014-09-23, Henning Brauer <hb-open...@ml.bsws.de> wrote: > pkg_add doesn't know or care about release/stable/current/frankenstein. > The packages itself are built against a certain set of libraries and > thus care (and pkg_add checks that). libraries don't change versions > in -stable, pretty much by definition. > to a smaller extent the same applies to syscalls and some other > interfaces, but we get into nitpicking. > > you tell pkg_add a source for your packages, that's it.
The only addition I have to this is that fixes are committed to -stable ports, so there are updates for these available, but official packages aren't built for these. They are available from a third party though, see https://stable.mtier.org/.
