From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 23 17:13:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DECE9106566B for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:13:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f44.google.com (mail-pw0-f44.google.com [209.85.160.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39038FC1E for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:13:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi15 with SMTP id 15so4915203pwi.3 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:13:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=EXk3XWC4gBaPm8LZvmVldbsHCPGCjuR3s2tbVWUmGkI=; b=TMQJ1QF1CV3bn+lx9AxEKSUKBPkgh7ExtPbjW+Z/zuijDvJ2I0LF5PyiNOkuSdibGq vNsVW2ZcMWlQGD8JXoP2a2wK6f68HlRLzRClur6vzPFMZ7nsYKdcRl71kqqfYaFSeGfs S2S7HHk5SG+XIWT96EoL2wJrMjpik8v1biycA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=LZl4avgJBdpVzO5qOiTVKkceVq3OtGWuqgkoZgeJ6NnrxtyHbrESdJp/G5Y9i1IMqn 46H4x+GNXyb3wY9ergzfSN9BNZeBeEfPE6BmwlL+bJF/LOf0S1QgKZ0bcy2QBbpbQy65 2kLpM/IfsZsGTMN1nDJS8Q4n7CyzmLNlnFiac= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.66.13 with SMTP id o13mr6851944wfa.307.1261588401226; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:13:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:13:21 -0600 Message-ID: <6201873e0912230913u1de13fe2n7a9cb93faa810f19@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Arthur Barlow Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages vs Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:13:22 -0000 On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > I've recently run into a new problem. Pkg_version show that there is a new > version of Firefox 3.5. However, when I try to recompile it, I get an > error > that the system has run out of swap space, even though I allocated a 512M > slice for a machine with 256M RAM. Anyway, when I used to recompile > Firefox > it would take over 8 hours. So I figured that I would just delete it and > download the new compiled version in a package. But, the package is still > not updated yet, and it's been over a week. How long does it usually take > for packages to catch up to ports? > > P.S. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 on an old Gateway Pentium III machine with a 40G > harddrive. > > pkg's are created at the time of release eg 7.2. They are never updated for that release. You can easily create your own with make package or pkg_create but that requires a successful recompile -- Adam Vande More