SVN RELEASE_9_2_0

Erwin Lansing erwin at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 1 11:17:00 UTC 2013


On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 12:14:42PM +0100, RW wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:56:32 +0000
> Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 
> > # Is FreeBSD doing something new?  I don't see an SVN tag for ports
> > for # the 9.2 release.  Historically the ports tree was tagged and
> > built a # little before -stable got tagged for release.
> >  
> > # Thanks,
> > # Jason
> > 
> > Ports don't belong to a specific FreeBSD version.
> > 
> > It's the built packages that are prepared shortly before release.
> > 
> > For the ports and doc trees, you would go for head (current).
> 
> He's not talking about a branch. It was a tag that allowed one to fetch
> the snapshot of the ports tree that was included on the release CDs and
> from which the release packages were built.

Just check out the branch with subversion like you would checkout the
tag with cvs.

Erwin

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