Ports upgrade policy

[Bob Johnson]

On 3/14/06, Mike Loiterman <mike at ascendency.net> wrote:
> Erik Trulsson <mailto:ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:18:13AM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote:
> >> Mike Loiterman wrote:
> >>> Is it advisable to sync my source to RELEASE, but to CURRENT for
> >>> ports? Typically, I upgade my ports a few days after they get
> >>> updated so I'm always running the latest version, but would it be
> >>> better to sync both ports and source to RELEASE?
> >>>
> >> It would be nice I guess if ports were tagged like src but they are
> >> not. Basically HEAD is all there is vis-a-vis tags.  You can specify
> >> a specific date however.
> >
> > Ports *are* tagged for each release, but they are not branched.
>
> Yes, I know, which is why I asked the question...which is better?

As I understand it, release tagsare static.  If you specify a release
tag, you get the ports as they were at the time of that release. 
Ports don't branch with releases, so if you want updated ports, you
use "tag=."


- Bob