Re: Tracking 4-stable rather than 4.8-stable

From: Michael Nottebrock (michaelnottebrock_at_gmx.net)
Date: 05/26/03

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Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 14:44:52 +0200

    On Monday 26 May 2003 08:38, Jukka Huvinen wrote:
    > On Mon, 26 May 2003, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

    > > Packages for -stable are updated on a regular basis, but only ever so
    > > often. Don't expect a package to be available in the order of days after
    > > a port has been upgraded.
    >
    > Hello! I'm also confused with getting _stable_ packages.
    >
    > How does it actually occur?
    >
    > If I update the ports collection with cvsup, it becomes to "current".
    > (tag=.) I think there is no alternative, tag=RELENG_4 does not fetch the
    > tree.

    That's correct. The terminology is confusing, but it's not really complicated:
    The FreeBSD build cluster basically builds packages for RELENG_4 and
    5-CURRENT, for all available platforms, from the same, unified
    ports-collection. These are mirrored to various ftp sites around the globe.
    Now look at the directory on FreeBSD's primary ftp server that contains
    various packages for the i386 platform:
    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386 .

    If you compare for example
    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.6.2-release/x11 ,
    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/x11 and
    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/x11 , you will
    notice that they all contain different versions of XFree86-libraries:
    4.2.0_1, 4.3.0_1 and 4.3.0_3. This because they all represent different
    _snapshots_ of the ports collection.

    So the "stable" packages are not build from a (nonexistent) RELENG_4 ports
    collection, they just represent a snapshot of the ports collection at a time
    where FreeBSD's RELENG_4 branch itself is -STABLE (as in uname -a output). As
    you can see in that ftp directory, this works in a similar fashion for
    5.0-RELEASE vs. 5-CURRENT. 

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