Up-to-date INDEXes may now be downloaded from www.freebsd.org
Ion-Mihai Tetcu
itetcu at apropo.ro
Mon May 17 00:29:33 PDT 2004
On Sun, 16 May 2004 18:49:25 -0700
Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> Up-to-date INDEX files may now be downloaded from the following
> locations:
>
> 4.x:
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX
>
> 5.x:
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-5
Hurray !
This will save about 40 minutes on my building machine.
> These are updated once an hour upon the successful completion of the
> INDEX tinderbox builds. They are built for the top of the RELENG_4
> and HEAD branches, but will mostly be suitable for other supported
> releases as well.
>
> Now that this service is in place, INDEX files will probably only be
> updated in the CVS repository for release builds.
Could you explain this ? I think my English plays me a trick and I don't
understand what this mean. If I cvsup do I get the last good INDEX /
INDEX-5 ? Or it's the opposite ?
BTW, is there any reason for which new things like pointyhat.freebsd.org
are not introduced to the "large public" ?
--
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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