Ports upgrade policy

[Jud]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:35:46 -0600, "Mike Loiterman"
<mike at ascendency.net> said:
> Erik Trulsson <mailto:ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:
[snip]
> >>> Is it advisable to sync my source to RELEASE, but to CURRENT for
> >>> ports? Typically, I upgade my ports a few days after they get
> >>> updated so I'm always running the latest version, but would it be
> >>> better to sync both ports and source to RELEASE? 
[snip]
> > Ports *are* tagged for each release, but they are not branched.
> 
> Yes, I know, which is why I asked the question...which is better?

Considerations I can think of -

(1) Advantage of using -HEAD (-CURRENT): Updates to ports may include
security fixes.

(2) Disadvantage of using -HEAD (-CURRENT): It is possible, though
perhaps not likely, that an updated port would require something your
-RELEASE base system lacked.

Jud