Re: release name

[RW]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 18:41:20 + (UTC)
Kostya Berger wrote:

> Could somebody, please, explain this:
> Am I right to assume that CURRENT or "head" release number is now
> 12.0?For in that case I'll have to reduild the ports in case of
> upgrading my system to the current head, right?Because my current
> system was build well before the 11.0-alpfha releases statred
> appearing.

With stable branches and releases you rebuild ports when crossing a
major boundary because that's the only time ABI changes can break
packages. 

With CURRENT the ABI can change, and break packages, at any time. 
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Re: release name

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> Could somebody, please, explain this:
> Am I right to assume that CURRENT or "head" release number is now
> 12.0?

Yes.

> For in that case I'll have to reduild the ports in case of
> upgrading my system to the current head, right? Because my current
> system was build well before the 11.0-alpha releases statred
> appearing.

If you build them on 11.0-alpha, they are good enough. You
only need to rebuild those that no longer work.

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