pkg_add question

[Bahman M.]

doug at safeport.com wrote:
> Over the weekend in trying to build xorg and kde from packages, none of 
> the various options for the package tree seemed to work. Plus the meta 
> port for kde was not available.
> 
> If one goes to /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/kde  (1)
>                /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/kde (2)
> 
> there does not seems to be a kde meta port in (1). In (2) there is:
> 
>    kde-3.5.4.tbz -> ../All/kde-3.5.4.tbz
> 
> In general all packages seem to be a symlink to ../All/.. I had assumed 
> this was the same directory and there was really one instance of the 
> ports tree per major release of FreeBSD. so I never (knowingly) 
> distinguished between -<n>-stable and -<n.x>-release. Is there a 
> difference.
> 
> Is there a working kde package in -6-stable?
I'm using 6.2-release and there is the x11/kde3 meta port.

Bahman

PS: I've upgraded ports on Aug 14th; but logically the kde3 metaport 
should have had been there before the upgrade.