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[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 07:45:26AM -0600, Peter Schultz wrote:
> Are there stable and current branches of the ports tree?  I wouldn't
> think so, because then I don't think there'd have to be such a critical
> ports freeze.  Having a better audited ports tree would be nice, like
> the other day when on of nectar's security patches to gaim got blown away.

No, there are no branches for the ports tree.

In the past I've considered having `security branches' for a *SMALL
SUBSET* of the ports tree.  If there were such a thing, it wouldn't
include gaim :-), only widely-used server applications.  But, there are
a few problems (for me) in making that happen.  Among them:

  Picking the subset.  Agreement would be nigh impossible.
  Actually building packages, particularly for non-x86 and for older
    branches.
  Time.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   NTT/Verio SME      FreeBSD UNIX       Heimdal
nectar at celabo.org jvidrine at verio.net nectar at freebsd.org nectar at kth.se