RELEASE_X_Y_Z branches/tags maintained??

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 04:58:18PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Roman Kennke wrote:
> 
> > Maybe, if there is _enough_ interest, somebody (starting with me??)
> > could start a separate (from FreeBSD) project, that aims to maintain a
> > stable FreeBSD ports tree.
> 
> I'd rather try to talk you into helping out on our existing PRs :-)
> 
> Alternatively, if having a completely stable ports tree is a showstopper
> for you, pkgsrc is supposed to run on FreeBSD.  But as someone else has
> noted, you're basically going to be doing a 100% reinstall to do that.

Not to mention that if you go with a smaller project you risk not
actually getting those updates in a timely manner anyway due to the
aforementioned manpower problems.

Kris
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