On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Chris H <bsd-li...@bsdforge.com> wrote:
> > Hi all, > > > > I am pleased to announce that we have created the 2014Q2 branch of the > ports > > tree. > > > > Because the first 2014Q1 branch was experimental you might not have > heard of it > > yet. > > > > January 2014 saw the release of the first quaterly branch, intended at > > providing a stable and high-quality ports tree. Those stable branches > are a > > snapshot of the head ports tree taken every 3 months and currently > supported > > for three months, during which they receive security fixes as well as > build and > > runtime fixes. > > > > Packages are built on regular basis on that branch (weekly) and > published as > > usual via pkg.FreeBSD.org (/quarterly instead of the usual /latest). > > > > They are signed the same way the /latest branch is. > > > > While packages for 2014Q1 were only built for 10 (i386 and amd64) 2014Q2 > will be > > built for both FreeBSD 9 and 10 (i386 and amd64). > > > > The first build of 2014Q2 will started this morning (wednesday at 1 am > UTC) and should > > hit your closest mirrors very soon. > > > > On behalf of the port management team > > Bapt > > > A big +1 on this! IMHO l-o-o-n-g over due. Thanks Bapt! > > A step towards making FreeBSD a distribution, not just a base OS anymore? :-) -- Nino _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
