ANy difference between 5.X ports tree and 4.X ports tree ?

Thomas T. Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net
Wed Jan 14 09:10:37 PST 2004


Pete French wrote:
> As I understand it, the ports tree is the same for both STABLE and
> CURRENT isnt it ? So can I safely do a cvsup with the line
> 
> ports-all tag=RELEASE_5_2_0
> 
> to update my ports collection to the set which comes with 5.2
> release, despite the fact I am running 4.9 ? I want to do this
> as I know the sets of ports which are marked for a RELEASE are
> tested to all work together, which saves some of the problems I
> sometimes get cvsupping at an arbitrary time.
> 
> The only reason I ask is that I ran the above command and it looked
> like it altered almost every port in the tree!
> 
> -pcf.

No.  Use

tag = .


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