Hi!

> Now that we are on a faster upgrade policy for minor branches, it is expected 
> that we'll upgrade from 11.0 to 11.1 to 11.2 much faster than in the old 
> days. I can cope with that, but it appears that functional changes are also 
> being made within the stable branch as seen here:
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221672
> 
> A new fdatasync()  method is available in 11.1 but not in 11.0 which means 
> that I now need to maintain separate ports trees for each minor update. I've 
> never done this before, assuming (correctly for me until now) that all ports 
> build on the latest minor release within the stable branch would work on 
> older releases until I was ready to upgrade them.

I think it was the other way around: All ports build on the .0 of
a RELEASE work on all later .x of that RELEASE. Which makes it a bit
difficult, if a .0 is no longer supported/patched by the secteam.

A pointer to the official policy would be nice 8-}

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p...@opsec.eu            +49 171 3101372                         3 years to go !
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