docs/119907: Ports compatability

Tim Judd p2nd8vp02 at sneakemail.com
Wed Jan 23 02:50:01 UTC 2008


>Number:         119907
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Ports compatability
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 23 02:50:00 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tim Judd
>Release:        N/A
>Organization:
None
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
The Ports ( http://www.freebsd.org/ports ) are described as having support as quoted below:

"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."

By the description alone, it doesn't describe that it supports -RELEASE or -RELEASE-p# systems.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Rephrase the above statement at the above URL to include -RELEASE systems.  Maybe a phrasing similar to:

"The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the FreeBSD-CURRENT, FreeBSD-STABLE branches and FreeBSD-RELEASE under the production release major versions. Older releases are not supported and may or may not work correctly with an up-to-date ports collection."


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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