which ports tag should i follow?

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at msu.edu
Tue Apr 1 14:49:18 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:26:24PM +0800, CY Teng wrote:

> Hi,
> i'm a newbie to freebsd. after reading handbook, i chose 7.0-stable and
> cvsup src-all, and now i don't know which ports tag to cvsup?
> does ports cvs tree have RELENG_7 tag too, or i should follow tag "."?

Depends on what you want to do.   Why did you chooose 7.0-stable
instead of 7.0-RELEASE which is the official release?  

Probably 'RELENG_7'  is a good choice.
using '.' will get you the bleeding edge development snapshot.

////jerry

> 
> thanks
> 
> tengcy
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