Ports

[Simon Barner]

Hi,

> I have a question concerning the ports : For my Base System I have decided
> to stick with RELENG_5_1 as tag for my cvsup-supfile. Should there be any
> problems if I use "." for the Ports-Collection ? I know what is the
> difference between these tags when applied to the base system but what is
> the difference when applied to the ports ?

For the ports collection there is only one branch `.'. The ports support
both FreeBSD -stable and -current, but if you are lucky, even older
version might work (but they are not officially supported, and I
remember a problem with one of the pkg_* tools that did not support a
certian command line option).

> And do I understand correctly that the state of my ports collection determines which
> version of a program I get when I type "make" and not the development status
> of the software ?

Yes, somebody needs to do the work and update the port to the lastest
version of the programm.

> (An Example would be : I have an old ports collection and built software
> version
> 0.13 from it. Now there is version 0.20 avaiable. Will "make" download and
> build 0.13 or 0.20 ?)      

It will build 0.13. You can try and update your ports collection and see
if somebody has already done that work, or you could try it yourself:

The porters' handbook might be a good start:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/

Regards,
 Simon
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