Bug 119907

Summary:	Ports compatibility
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Tim Judd <p2nd8vp02>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Tom Rhodes <trhodes>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Tim Judd 2008-01-23 02:50:00 UTC

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.

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."

Comment 1 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer

2008-08-05 16:50:52 UTC

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

Comment 2 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer

2009-01-10 13:11:36 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Close this PR - the current wording is fine as I noted in 
my follow up in August of 2008.  Thanks!

Comment 3 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer

2009-01-10 13:11:36 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes

Over to me.