Hello,
I am new to the FreeBSD ports collection system and am having some difficulty
understanding how the ports collection works with the FreeBSD branches. After
having perused the ports collection doc on the FreeBSD website, I got the
impression that it is the FreeBSD branch tag that determines which versions of
the packages or ports will be installed/upgraded. But this is somehow
confusing to me when I need to upgrade a port. Here is an example. I have
FreeBSD 5.3 installed via CD so it appears to me that the "branch tag" used by
my installation is 5.3-RELEASE. I installed a bunch of packages from the CD,
then updated the ports collection using the CVSup. Now, if I use portupgrade
to upgrade a package, on which branch will it look for the new ports?
One example is KDE. I had version 3.3.0 installed via the ports collection but
now there is a new 3.3.1 version out there, which appears to be on the 5.3
STABLE branch. But can I simply use the portupgrade on my 5.3-RELEASE to
upgrade KDE to the 3.3.1 port?
rain
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