Just a ports related question

Achilleus Mantzios achill at matrix.gatewaynet.com
Fri Jun 2 06:31:07 PDT 2006


O Mark Linimon έγραψε στις Jun 2, 2006 :

> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:14:24PM +0300, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> > Provided that 6.1-RELEASE was out on Mon, 08 May 2006 wouldn't make more 
> > sense if packages like Python were updated?
> 
> The delay was due to the fact that we froze the ports tree at a point
> in the release cycle when we thought we were fairly close, source-wise.
> Events proved that freezing to have been premature.  Nevertheless, once
> done, to re-freeze later on in the cycle (and thus pick up more than a
> month's worth of port updates) would have added at least another week to
> the release cycle.
> 

Anyway, since the tag for ports is ".", (and it is a substantial
property of the ports system, i.e. not following RELEASES and branches,
but evolving on their own), would not it make more sense to arrange
for packages in 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/
to progressively match those of
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-stable?

or maybe the pkg_add command picked the right package location
based on this criterion also??

In anyway, popular packages like Python in such ultra 'mainstream'
scenarios (-RELEASE and the like), i think , people would
expected them to be there compiled for their system.

> We're trying to get this gap to be shorter but these things are hard to
> predict.  See http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/qa.html for a lot more about
> all this.
> 
> Finally, general ports issues should be discussed on freebsd-ports@ :-)

I know, its just that i have more friends here :)
(I hope to make some new ones in freebsd-ports@ :-)

> 
> mcl
> 

-- 
-Achilleus




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