[RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

[Matthew Seaman]

On 2017/06/22 20:56, Baho Utot wrote:
> One could still use releng 11.0 ports with 10.3 OS could they not

No, not in general.

You've got it the wrong way round.

You might get away with releng 10.3 ports and 11.0 OS for a while but it
will likely cause you grief when you do run afoul of a necessary
security update and try and update stuff.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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