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Originally Posted by IronForge
If I have recalled correctly in presuming that most "dev" work is being done/ported to "snapshot" (or -current, am I right?).
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Most all new work
(outside of patches & some changes backported to -stable & -release...) goes into the head of the CVS tree which is
-current.
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Should all the "active and viable" packages from the 4.6(release, am I right?) directory be listed in the snapshot directory?
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Most likely not given that packages in
-current are built again & again throughout the development cycle for a number of reasons:
- Continued changes to the ports themselves.
- As the system itself is volatile at the head of CVS, so are packages. And the two aren't always synchronized. Those who live on the edge (-current) can expect that there may be times when they have to resort to building packages themselves.
- Resource constraints. Building all packages in -current just isn't feasible given their short shelf-life. Building most packages for -release (Even in -release not all ports are built into packages for various reasons...) is possible since they only have to be built once every six months.
Re-reading
Section 5.1 &
Section 15.3 would be time well-spent
(even for me... ).