Chuck,
Thank you for your help. I have two questions:
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Ports are not branched-- there is no STABLE or CURRENT for ports. The
same ports tree can be used on 6.x, 7.x, and 8-CURRENT.
1. With what is the STABLE/CURRENT tag associated?
a) "core operating system version number"
b) the ports collection
c) something else
What are the repercussions of never updating the "core operating
system version number"?
Well, you'll miss ongoing security updates and improvements to the
system.
2. I thought security updates and improvements to the system would
arrive via the ports mechanism. What kinds of things are not updated
via ports? (My experience is with Gentoo where everything is updated
via portage and there is no "core operating system version number").
Thanks again,
Chris
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