Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:08:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcsh broken Message-ID: <200007212308.SAA62515@aurora.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <vqcvgxzwd3t.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami at "Jul 21, 2000 11:29:58 am"
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> * From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> > > * control over that. But I sort of wish that the older tarball (i.e. > * 6.09.01 in this case) would reliably get mirrored on wcarchive, > > I'm sorry this was the case. I'm doing all I can in my power to make > it happen, but in this case this is why it didn't work: I'm not really interested in this particular case, or excuses at all, since I know it's simply not a task that's possible. As it is, it's probably a freakin' wonder that things work as well as they do... I went and did a whole boatload of flawless shell/X11 type port installs, normally the worst offenders, up until StarOffice but that's just because Sun blows for requiring X up and running to set up. > If I had any control over it, I'd get more machines so that we don't > have to do (2), but right now with only 6 machines to run the > compilation (two of them died since last year) and with over 3,600 > ports, it takes almost two full days to compile one set so it's simply > not possible to take care of all branches sufficiently during the > release cycle. Quite understandable. What kind of machines were they, btw? -- ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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