Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 14:12:00 +0200 From: Stevan Tiefert <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> To: racerx@makeworld.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is 6.2-RELEASE/packages/Latest/ not latest enough? Message-ID: <1178194328.43472.10.camel@vagabund.w33> In-Reply-To: <4639D012.80006@makeworld.com> References: <1178183489.833.9.camel@vagabund.w33> <cb5206420705030428j39b88882wd6964ffe693bd3bf@mail.gmail.com> <4639D012.80006@makeworld.com>
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Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2007, 07:05 -0500 schrieb Chris: > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On 5/3/07, Stevan Tiefert <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> I have installed via pkg_add -r various packages for my 6.2-RELEASE. I > >> have recognized that on this way I will not get always the newest > >> package. > > > > You only get the packages compiled during the release > > process. Newer packages are only built for 6-stable and > > 7-current. The hard truth is that we don't have enough > > human/hardware resources to keep 6.2 packages up-to-date. > > While the above may indeed be true - if you really feel the need to have > the latest and greatest - that's 1/2 of what the ports and the upgrade > tools that are given to you to are for. > > These same tools do allow you to create packages for your own needs. > > The problem I pointed to is, that at the RELEASE_6_2 two packages of firefox and openoffice.org exists and via pkg_add -r I receive the older package of them both, because the links in .../Latest/ are pointing to the older packages, but the newer packages are available for RELEASE_6_2 (I don't mean RELENG_6)! ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
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