Change to ports.inc

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jul 12 06:23:32 PDT 2003


On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:24:45 -0700
Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:

> Can someone please review/correct my lame markup in the following
> patch?
> 
> Kris
> 
> Index: ports.inc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /mnt2/ncvs/www/en/ports/ports.inc,v
> retrieving revision 1.65
> diff -u -u -r1.65 ports.inc
> --- ports.inc	22 Feb 2003 22:00:07 -0000	1.65
> +++ ports.inc	11 Jul 2003 22:49:29 -0000
> @@ -6,6 +6,17 @@
>  tremendous rate</a>.
>  </p>
>  
> +<p>The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the
> +FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE branches.  Older releases are not
> +supported and may or may not work correctly with an up-to-date ports
> +collection.  Over time, changes to the ports collection may rely on
> +features that are not present in older releases.  Wherever convenient,
> +we try not to gratuitously break support for recent releases, but it
> +is sometimes unavoidable.  When this occurs, patches contributed by
> +the user community to maintain support for older releases will usually
> +be committed.
> +</p>
> +

This looks good to me, Kris.

--
Tom Rhodes


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