On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:58:13 +0100 Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svei...@lvor.halvorsen.cc> wrote:
> Is it possible to pkg_add -r packages from -STABLE on the latest > -RELEASE? That is, will the following work, or slowly render my > system to an incoherent state: > > 1) Regularly run freebsd-update > 2) Regularly run portsnap > 3) Set my PACKAGESITE to the -STABLE location > 4) Regularly run portupgrade -P > It'll work most of the time, but occasionally it will fail, when a STABLE package relies on a library or other feature that's not in the release. A compromise might be to stick to the release packages, until portaudit reveals a significant vulnerability and then switch to Stable until the next release. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"