Packages available for different FreeBSD versions

[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Chris Stankevitz <cstankevitz at toyon.com>wrote:

> Chuck,
>
> Thank you for your help.  I have two questions:
>
> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>
>> Ports are not branched-- there is no STABLE or CURRENT for ports.  The
>> same ports tree can be used on 6.x, 7.x, and 8-CURRENT.
>>
>
> 1. With what is the STABLE/CURRENT tag associated?

Release/Stable/Current are related to the FreeBSD branch eg 6, 7, 8

>
> a) "core operating system version number"
> b) the ports collection
> c) something else
>
>  What are the repercussions of never updating the "core operating system
>>> version number"?
>>>
>>
>> Well, you'll miss ongoing security updates and improvements to the system.
>>
>
> 2. I thought security updates and improvements to the system would arrive
> via the ports mechanism.  What kinds of things are not updated via ports?
>  (My experience is with Gentoo where everything is updated via portage and
> there is no "core operating system version number").
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Chris
>
> Ports are 3rd party apps not in the base system, things like apache and
postgresql are part of ports not base system.  Things like cp and tar are
part of base system and not ports.  FreeBSD userland and kernel is not part
of ports system these are updated seperately using things like
freebsd-update.


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Adam Vande More