From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 06:28:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98656106566B for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 06:28:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816638FC08 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 06:28:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.88]) by qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id DJRu1f0041u4NiLA5JUaTg; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:28:34 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.41.155]) by omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id DJUZ1f0013LrwQ28hJUZV7; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:28:33 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DAD009B418; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:28:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:28:32 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Rainer Hurling Message-ID: <20101001062832.GA37936@icarus.home.lan> References: <4CA57D11.3020406@gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CA57D11.3020406@gwdg.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: package generation on FreeBSD ftp server X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:28:34 -0000 On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 08:17:53AM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote: > I have a question about packages at > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/ . > > They are automatically generated from time to time. I understand > that this depends on computing capacities on the server farm etc. So > some packages are relatively new, some are older and some are > missing... > > For example, for math/saga there had been a package saga-2.0.4_4.tbz > for some time. After updating SAGA GIS to version 2.0.5 there is no > package any more. > > There was an error on building math/saga in first half of september, see > http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?portname=saga > > This was corected and the new SAGA GIS version has to differentiate > between i386 and amd64 because of dependency libiodbc (patch > problem). > > Does this prevent from automatic package generation? > > I would be happy if someone could give an explaination on this. My impression has always been that the packages **are not** updated automatically, and are done manually + updated manually by someone. This is confirmed by the high amount of variance in timestamps on all the symlinks in the All/ directory (see for yourself). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |