On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Henning Brauer <hb-open...@ml.bsws.de> wrote: > * Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> [2014-09-23 10:12]: >> [...] >> and I think it at indicates not to mix -stable and -release . > > incorrect. > > -stbale is -release + fixes, the entire point of -stable is that it is > 100% compatible with release - it just sees a few fixes. > >> But I don't see any way to tell pkg_add which. > > pkg_add doesn't know or care about release/stable/current/frankenstein. > The packages itself are built against a certain set of libraries and > thus care (and pkg_add checks that). libraries don't change versions > in -stable, pretty much by definition. > to a smaller extent the same applies to syscalls and some other > interfaces, but we get into nitpicking. > > you tell pkg_add a source for your packages, that's it. > >> It looks like pkg_add references and uses the ports directory > > nope
Thanks, Henning (and Marcus, too). That gets me straightened out. -- Joel Rees Computer storage is nothing but fancy paper, and the CPUs nothing but fancy pens. All is text, streaming from the past to the future forever.
