CVSup question

Patrick Bowen pbowen at fastmail.fm
Wed Feb 21 19:08:02 UTC 2007


Simon Gao wrote:
> What if I just want to update ports for 5 stable tree? If using HEAD, 
> then may some ports being updated be current but not stable? Or there 
> is no such things as stable or current ports?
> Simon
>
>
> Joe Holden wrote:
>> Simon Gao wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have some machines running FreeBSD 5.2.1. Is it safe to update 
>>> ports to 5.4_stable via CVSup? Or should I use 5_stable?
>>>
>>
>> Ports are independant of base branch, ports should generally be HEAD 
>> (tag=.).
>>
>> HTH,
>> Joe
>>
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No such thing as -stable or -current ports.

Patrick


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