Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On 02 June 2012 AM 9:14:28 Chris Rees wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, "Erich Dollansky" <erich at alogreentechnologies.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > But I have to mention one disadvantage. The ports are in no way linked to
> the releases. This leads to situations in which a small change in a basic
> library will result in a complete update of the installed ports. I
> expressed this already many time here. It would be of advantage if the
> ports tree would also have tags like the base system itself.
> >
> 
> Unfortunately this is a massive amount of extra work - we only just keep up
> with updates as it is.

I do not think so. At least not for the first step as I see it. Just make snapshots of the ports tree when the release comes out. These snapshots are with the releases anyway.

What I did was very simple. I got the ports tree that comes with the release and installed the system back to the release status. Ok, it was some work for me - maybe not for others - to find this tree.

A simple link could help here.

I do not know if this is just an opinion which is too optimistic.

What I know is that all the security fixes which appeared since the release are not in there. If I have the choice between three days or more of compiling and known security holes, I will take the security holes, make the client happy and upgrade after the work for the client is finished.

I would not expect that FreeBSD will provide more than this.

Erich