On 12/06/16 21:59, Jason Unovitch wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 10:48:20PM +0000, Ben Woods wrote: >> On Tue., 6 Dec. 2016 at 4:44 am, Julian Elischer <jul...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> they are effectively useless because the results are not archived, and >>> the quarterly pkg branch actually changes day by day, so making two >>> machines from the same quarterly branch can give you different >>> machines (making it useless for paying work) >>> >>> not to mention that if you use the quarterly pkg branch you run he >>> risk of it completely changing if you happen to be unlucky enough to >>> be doing it across a quarterly boundary. then you end up with a >>> completely messed up system. (from experience). >>> > > If you are handling the burden of support for a customer then perhaps > Poudriere and building internally is the best option. Then if you want > to stay on an older quarterly because none of what you deploy to > customers is impacted by security issues you can roll them at your own > pace. > >>> But the big question still remains.. >>> >>> What do you think you are solving and why are they changing? shouldn't >>> a snapshot be stable? > > > Think releng compared to stable in the src repo rather than > release/stable. They change in the same fashion to get SA (in the form > of VuXML) and errata worthy fixes. > [...]
If only! At least the current base releng does not arbitrarily disappear every three months. -- George _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
