* Joel Rees <[email protected]> [2014-09-23 10:12]: > I've built both /usr/src and /usr/xenocara after updating to -stable, > and I've updated /usr/ports to -stable, but there are no instructions > to do a build at the top of /usr/ports. Can I assume that would be > because you generally don't want to build the whole ports tree?
pretty much. > I'm reading the faq, and looks like pkg_add doesn't have any option to > tell it whether to add from -stable or -current or -release . There > are warnings not to mix packages from -stable and -current , correct > and I think it at indicates not to mix -stable and -release . incorrect. -stbale is -release + fixes, the entire point of -stable is that it is 100% compatible with release - it just sees a few fixes. > But I don't see any way to tell pkg_add which. pkg_add doesn't know or care about release/stable/current/frankenstein. The packages itself are built against a certain set of libraries and thus care (and pkg_add checks that). libraries don't change versions in -stable, pretty much by definition. to a smaller extent the same applies to syscalls and some other interfaces, but we get into nitpicking. you tell pkg_add a source for your packages, that's it. > It looks like pkg_add references and uses the ports directory nope -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services GmbH, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS. Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
