[ANNOUNCE] ports 2014Q2 branched

[n j]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Chris H <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:

> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am pleased to announce that we have created the 2014Q2 branch of the
> ports
> > tree.
> >
> > Because the first 2014Q1 branch was experimental you might not have
> heard of it
> > yet.
> >
> > January 2014 saw the release of the first quaterly branch, intended at
> > providing a stable and high-quality ports tree. Those stable branches
> are a
> > snapshot of the head ports tree taken every 3 months and currently
> supported
> > for three months, during which they receive security fixes as well as
> build and
> > runtime fixes.
> >
> > Packages are built on regular basis on that branch (weekly) and
> published as
> > usual via pkg.FreeBSD.org (/quarterly instead of the usual /latest).
> >
> > They are signed the same way the /latest branch is.
> >
> > While packages for 2014Q1 were only built for 10 (i386 and amd64) 2014Q2
> will be
> > built for both FreeBSD 9 and 10 (i386 and amd64).
> >
> > The first build of 2014Q2 will started this morning (wednesday at 1 am
> UTC) and should
> > hit your closest mirrors very soon.
> >
> > On behalf of the port management team
> > Bapt
> >
> A big +1 on this! IMHO l-o-o-n-g over due. Thanks Bapt!
>
>
A step towards making FreeBSD a distribution, not just a base OS anymore?
:-)

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Nino