Binary packages for releases and portupgrade

[Doug Barton]

Martin Cracauer wrote:
> It's time to bite the bullet.  My 1.3 GHz Pentium-M Notebook just
> can't keep up with the port building.  I need OpenOffice and stuff and
> the party is really over at that point.  I need something with binary
> packages.
> 
> Do I understand that correctly if I run 8.0 release I get to have
> prebuilt binaries as recognized by portupgrade?

Well, 8-release or 8-stable should both be fine for this purpose, for
most packages, with portupgrade or portmaster. My understanding is
that we've given up trying to produce packages for openoffice on all
branches.

> What happens to the minor security updates? Can I follow TRELENG_8_0
> and port portsupgrade recognize this as something that uses 8-release
> binary packages?

RELENG_8_0 is _exactly_  8.0-RELEASE, and will never change. If you
want 8-stable, RELENG_8 is the way to go. Otherwise you will need to
update the tag each time a new security branch is created.


hth,

Doug

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