release cycle

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Sat Jun 2 13:21:38 UTC 2007


On Jun 2, 2007, at 3:45 , Chris wrote:

> Given that Kris repeatedly tells me and others that the ports system
> is only supported on the latest freebsd release (meaning one has to be
> upgrading freebsd on their servers every few months to get this
> support) if 7.0 and 6.3 are released around the same time will the
> ports tree be supported on both?

I think you're confused by terminology.  As I understand it, the  
ports tree is supported on -CURRENT and the latest -STABLE series:   
that is, currently on 6.x and 7.x (and possibly 5.x still since  
RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 were both being released for a while), but not  
RELENG_4 or earlier.

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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH




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