Re: release tag for ports

On 2/28/06, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,

Another FreeBSD Newbie question pertaining to ports.

based on the example ports-supfile
in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile

[snip]
*default release=cvs tag=.
[/snip]

What I would like to know if there are any other versions of the ports.
meaning, say eg: programA, there is version 1.0, 1.0.2, 1.1 etc..

Is there such thing as RELENG_6 RELENG_6_1 or something like this? Or is
there only going to be 1 and only 1 version of ports? (I think there
_is_ an option, only that I don't know. I've searched through the
handbook, but I've only found references to the example ports-supfile
with the "tag=.")

let's take gnome as an example, there's version 2.10/2.12/2.13 etc. Do
I,the user, have a choice to be able to upgrade to any of the 3 versions
as I see fit?

Thanks.

I'll google it up when I get home to an I-net connection.

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Short version, No.
Ports, docs, etc. do not have -RELEASE tags, when you cvsup ports you
always get what would be the equivalent of cvsup'ing you system up
with -CURRENT, hence the dot for the release tag. You can however
cvsup to a specific date and time in the passed if you use something
like this "*default date=2005.10.25.00.00.00", all the zero's are for
time (GMT, 24 hour clock).

Longer version that says the same thing:
http://groups.google.com/group/list.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/d098d124350a933b/



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