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I want to add that the FreeBSD ports management team is probably too small to handle complicated release management and backporting schemes like you see with RH
by xenophonf 12y ago
I want to add that the FreeBSD ports management team is probably too small to handle complicated release management and backporting schemes like you see with RHEL or Ubuntu. That said, nothing stops you from doing it if you wanted. You can set up your own binary package repository using Poudriere. That's what I do; I tend to update everything quarterly unless there's a serious security flaw in something.
- Freaky 12y agoNote there are quarterly ports branches you can track if you just want security fixes - you're not just limited to tracking HEAD: https://secure.freshbsd.org/search?project=freebsd-ports&branch=2015Q1 https://secure.freshbsd.org/search?project=freebsd-ports&bra...
- xenophonf 12y agoAwesome. I didn't know about these. Thank you!