Nerius Landys writes: > By "bringing the patch level up to date" I assume you mean a tag such > as this one: > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8_0
That is what I meant. > in your standard-supfile file, and then doing the "make buildworld" > etc. prodedure outlined in the Handbook. > > The release branches (such as RELENG_8_0) get only very minor > modifications from the time the release is made. The patches are only > ones that address really serious issues, and the extent of the changes > is usually very minimal. Whather you install ports before or after > you update to the latest patch for your release should make absolutely > no difference. That is what I suspected but I wanted to start on the right foot so I thought I would check. Thank you. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ 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"