Where are precompiled packages?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:56:56PM -0500, Richard Bejtlich wrote:
> Sorry for the seemingly dumb question, but is there a problem with
> precompiled packages for FreeBSD 6 (packages-6-stable) being mirrored
> on the FTP servers?
> 
> About two weeks ago I noticed that the databases/mysql50-server
> package disappeared from the directory in which I usually find it:
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/databases/
> 
> I thought "ok, maybe there was a build problem."  However, that
> directory doesn't contain any packages with timestamps later than 24
> January.
> 
> Looking at Pointyhat error logs, I see this:
> 
> Packages from last full run on 6-current [i386 (2006-02-05 15:09)]...
> 
> Packages from latest run on 6-current [i386 (2006-02-10 22:58)]...
> 
> Sure enough, I can find the MySQL package here:
> 
> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-6-packages-full/databases/mysql-server-5.0.18.tbz
> 
> and here:
> 
> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-6-packages-latest/databases/mysql-server-5.0.18.tbz
> 
> If the newest packages date from yesterday, where are they on the main
> FTP server?

Probably in the process of being mirrored out to the various FTP
sites, which of course doesn't happen instantaneously:

> The only place that seems to have the latest packages-6-stable
> packages (including the MySQL one I referenced above) is
> ftp2.freebsd.org.

Kris
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