Is there a "stable" ports tree?

[Xn Nooby]

I like this idea.  It's not fun when you try to update your system, then
have to spend time fixing things.


On 3/15/06, Jason C. Wells <jcw at highperformance.net> wrote:
>
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:24:08PM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote:
> >> Is there a "stable" ports tree?
> >
> > No.
>
> However you can sup the ports tree for a specific release.  I run ports
> using "tag=RELEASE_6_0_0".  The reason I do this is that I find it to be
> much less work.
>
> I am a much more conservative user than many.  I really hate chasing
> down down upgrade dependencies even with the the very nice ports tools
> we have today.
>
> If you really wanted a particular port to be updgraded, you can fetch
> just that one port and build it.  This would give you a manually
> controlled psuedo-stable.  It would be more work though.
>
> Later,
> Jason C. Wells
>