Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 20:33:44 -0400 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Hackers" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Announce: Unofficial binary package builds for old releases Message-ID: <CAKYr3zyzZ5htxDq2-z8Xd_520Jd5F5J9O6GFF7gqEwMFPED3iQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9B5BE591-C981-401C-854D-15272E87E15C@dragondata.com> References: <9B5BE591-C981-401C-854D-15272E87E15C@dragondata.com>
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On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> wrote: > Thanks to poudriere making this easy, we're now making public our > (unofficial!) constantly being rebuilt repository of binary packages for > old FreeBSD releases and less popular architectures. > > See http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/FreeBSD-Unofficial-Packages for > instructions on how to use this. > > How do these differ from the official packages? > > 1) We're building packages for 9.1 all the way back to 7.2. > > 2) We're constantly grabbing new versions of ports and rebuilding as fast > as the builders can go. Our goal is to rebuild the latest version (9.1 > right now) in both amd64 and i386 every 24 hours, and all other versions > every 7 days. > > 3) We're leaving up old versions (in the All directory) of everything, so > you can grab older versions if we have them. > > 4) We're building everything twice, one by default and one a special > internal-use version that has X11, examples, debugging and a few other > features shut off. If the port can't be built without those features, it > just gets skipped. (This may not be of use to anyone other than us) > > 5) We're building packages for i386, amd64, ia64, and have the hardware in > house to build for PPC, ARM and sparc64 if anyone asks for it. > > (As of this writing, our ia64 box just started building things, and looks > like it'll take another 5+ days to finish. If you need ia64, give it a few > days.) > > > Feel free to contact me with any questions, or suggestions for how this > might be more useful to you. If you could actually use this on any other > release or architecture that isn't currently listed, please let me know. If > there's anyone out there that would prefer pkgng instead of the old style > packages, we might be able to get those going too. This is primarily for > our own internal use so I don't want to add support for a ton of things if > nobody is going to use this, so speak up if you want something! > > > What did i miss ?? setenv PACKAGESITE http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/FreeBSD-Unofficial-Packages/91amd64-default/Latest/ root@hostbsd:/ # pkg update Updating repository catalogue pkg: http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/FreeBSD-Unofficial-Packages/91amd64-default/Latest//repo.txz: Not Found > -- Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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