Re: Why do packages disappear?

Richard Childers <childers@redwoodhodling.com> writes:

> When I say 'disappear', I mean this:
>
>
> root@metatron:~ # date
> Tue Nov 21 12:41:35 PST 2023
>
> root@metatron:~ # ls -d /usr/ports/*/*google*chrom*
> /usr/ports/www/ungoogled-chromium
>
> root@metatron:~ # pkg search ungoogled-chromium
> root@metatron:~ #
>
>
> It would be nice if packages didn't disappear and reappear. Can't we
> just save the last successful build?

Not in cases where the port was updated to fix a security problem. Once
we have a fix, we should not be distributing software with known
vulnerabilities, even if that means there is no package available for
several hours.

Be well.