how to move 9.1 ports to HEAD?
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Fri Feb 8 15:36:19 UTC 2013
Anton Shterenlikht writes:
> You already have (achieved this): ports is (still) not brnched as src
> is. We use the head of the ports tree for all branches of FreeBSD.
>
> I don't think it's true.
> While still on 9.1 ports, the latest
> entry in UPDATING was (well I lost it now)
> about NOV-2012. I believe the revision was
> also substantially lower.
>
> AS soon as I switched to head,
> the latest entry in UPDATING is from
> 6-FEB-2013 and the revision is 311942.
>
> Or maybe I misunderstood you?
You do. :-)
The local _subversion repository_ (I know I'm using incorrent
terminology) has a revision number: r######. Which is the same
across different versions of FreeBSD.
The individual ports _maintained within that repository_ have
their individual ports numbers (e.g. libreoffice-3.6.5) ... which
also does not vary with the FreeBSD release. One can have
libreoffice-3.6.5 and libreoffice 3.5.4 - but those are two separate
ports and both work (or should) on 8.3, 9.1, and -CURRENT. If a
port has a minimum (or maximum) release of the OS it supports, there
a mechanism for figuring that out and DTRT.
Or did I misunderstand you?
Respectfully,
Robert Huff
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