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From: Tim Judd <p2nd8vp02@sneakemail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Ports compatibility
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>Number:         119907
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Ports compatibility
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    trhodes
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 23 02:50:00 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:    Sat Jan 10 13:13:29 UTC 2009
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jan 10 13:13:29 UTC 2009
>Originator:     Tim Judd
>Release:        N/A
>Organization:
None
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
The Ports ( http://www.freebsd.org/ports ) are described as having support as quoted below:

"The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE branches. Older releases are not supported and may or may not work correctly with an up-to-date ports collection."

By the description alone, it doesn't describe that it supports -RELEASE or -RELEASE-p# systems.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Rephrase the above statement at the above URL to include -RELEASE systems.  Maybe a phrasing similar to:

"The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the FreeBSD-CURRENT, FreeBSD-STABLE branches and FreeBSD-RELEASE under the production release major versions. Older releases are not supported and may or may not work correctly with an up-to-date ports collection."


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From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc: p2nd8vp02@sneakemail.com
Subject: Re: docs/119907: Ports compatibility
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:50:52 -0400

 Hi,
 
 > By the description alone, it doesn't describe that it supports -RELEASE or -RELEASE-p# systems.
 
 The problem is that using "-RELEASE" and/or "-RELEASE-pN" systems
 is that it makes the support coverage too broad.  Where I work
 we have a few 4.11 RELEASE systems and one 4.4 RELEASE system
 but the ports collection doesn't support the latter.  In fact,
 to make a later version work, I had to patch several base
 utilities to get certain software installed.
 
 The -CURRENT and -STABLE is pretty good for right now.  If
 you can come up with something that covers the possibility
 of several releases then please do.  :)
 
 Thanks,
 
 -- 
 Tom Rhodes
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: trhodes 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jan 10 13:11:36 UTC 2009 
State-Changed-Why:  
Close this PR - the current wording is fine as I noted in 
my follow up in August of 2008.  Thanks! 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes 
Responsible-Changed-By: trhodes 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Jan 10 13:11:36 UTC 2009 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to me. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=119907 
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