Dick Davies wrote: > But I'm a little alarmed by the pre 5.3 release ports freeze - portaudit has > flagged an awful lot of packages as having holes and refused to install them. [ ... ] > I just wondered if there is a policy to not upgrade ports under any > circumstances, or if this is just an oversight? I can imagine this would make > me very twitchy if I was running production boxes during a freeze.... > or have I missed something, and this doesn't affect 4.* users? The ports freeze slows down the rate at which changes are made to ports, but important changes like security fixes will still happen, and permitted after approval from <portmgr_at_freebsd.org>. Your question prompts another, however, which is: "How long is too long to keep the ports tree frozen?" I suspect that there would exist less busywork between portmgr_at_ and maybe re_at_ if the ports tree was frozen not during the entire beta cycle, but starting a week or so before the RC versions come out. -- -ChuckReceived on Sun Oct 10 2004 - 19:04:00 UTC
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