Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:13:21 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Arthur Barlow <arthurbarlow@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages vs Ports Message-ID: <6201873e0912230913u1de13fe2n7a9cb93faa810f19@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b9384ad40912230906j2926aeeak196325377cd00f19@mail.gmail.com> References: <b9384ad40912230906j2926aeeak196325377cd00f19@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow <arthurbarlow@gmail.com>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
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