Ability for maintainers to update own ports

Sergey Matveychuk sem at ciam.ru
Tue Nov 11 11:26:00 PST 2003


Kris Kennaway wrote:

> There's no way that we can reasonably guarantee that tagged ports will
> work together (e.g. what happens when a dependency changes?), so
> tagging has minimal benefit.  We already provide this level of minimal
> support for people who want to try to mix and match old ports, namely
> people can use cvs to manage their ports tree and update ports to
> whichever CVS revision they like.

Yes, I suppose it will a tags nightmare this way.

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