Are there STABLE/CURRENT/RELEASE tags for ports?

[chris corayer]

You could try specifying a date in your cvsupfile.  This isn't exactly what
you are looking for but if you tried to update a port and find it no longer
works, you could then roll back the changes made with another cvsup for the
ports.  I have done this in the past but don't recall the exact syntax.  Try
man cvsup.  I would consider setting up another cvsup file for just this
purpose if you think it will happen often.  You could set the date to when
the new version came out, sort of a "release" date, or just increment it
until you get it to the point where you know it builds and go from there.

Hope this helps a little.

-Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DoubleF" <doublef at tele-kom.ru>
To: "Mark Miller" <joup at bnet.org>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, 12 June, 2003 0:23
Subject: Re: Are there STABLE/CURRENT/RELEASE tags for ports?


> > Are there any equivalents to STABLE/RELEASE/CURRENT for ports?  I've
been
> > cvsup'ing with "tag=." for awhile and I keep getting build errors (bug
> > reports will be filed soon).  Is there a way to just track -STABLE ports
> > (maybe that only have bugfixes and security updates) that are more
likely
> > to play nicely with each other?  If not, is there any way to make this
> > happen?
>
> Arghh I wish there were such tags.
>
> In the meantime you might consider CTM for ports, downloading the deltas
> from the FTP. If you do that and NEVER EVER remove the deltas, you may
> be able to 'roll back' to any date you want to try to find the non-broken
> port version (if there was any, of course...).
>
> I am also rather tired of build errors. What I can suggest is probably
> kludgy, but it is the least kludgy way I could find to compile some
> ports. Before you install any ports,
>
> 1) Save the deltas...
>
> <hier kludge start>
> 2) Symlink /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local. Many ports put files in the wrong
> one, and symlinking individual files is, ahm,... AFAIK, there are no
> colliding files in them.
>
> 3) Try putting /usr/local and /var/db/pkg (and /etc/X11, and /usr/ports
> maybe, but I don't) on a separate filesystem. Make two such filesystems,
> "current" and "stable". Make / and the remaining /usr as read-only as
> possible. Make a mountpoint, say, /switch. Symlink /usr/local to
> /switch/usr.local, /var/db/pkg to /switch/var.db.pkg... Then change the
> fstab file to mount "stable" at startup. You can always mount "current"
> after boot on top of "stable" and so emulate what you wish. You may want
> to make the WRKDIRPREFIX to point to a directory shared between the
> "current" and "stable" to save compilation time (otherwise you will
> compile each port twice), but I wouldn't recommend it (to be on the safe
> side).
> <hier kludge end>
>
> It's just what I do. I know it breaks the normal hierarchy (and takes 2x
> space), but at least it does it in a polite way.
>
> HTH,
> DoubleF
>
>
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