Hi list,

I just browsed the CVS repository of pkgsrc and saw, that there are a lots
of tags besides the MAIN tree. Since I am running NetBSD 1.6.1, is there
any sense sticking to one of the 1-6 tags/branches. And what is the
difference between netbsd-1-6-RELEASE-base, netbsd-1-6-1-base,
netbsd-1-6-1 and netbsd-1-6? Are these tags real branches, in the sense,
that they are in any way maintained (e.g. security fixes)? Or are they
only snapshots of pkgsrc at the time, when NetBSD 1.6.1 was released?
Another problem is, that the HEAD branch often has broken packages. For
instance at the moment I cannot compile mozilla (and thus galeon and other
mozilla-dependen packages), MozilleFirebird, gdm and some others. Is there
something like a current-stable branch? Or a mechanism like ~arch in
Gentoo Linux? Where packages get into, which are in HEAD for a while and
compile and run relatively stable on most systems in arch?
Roman