Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:24:19 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@googlemail.com> Cc: sfourman@gmail.com, ports@freebsd.org, kmoore@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: qtcreator-1.2.1: Not installable Message-ID: <20091028142419.7bb8d7a1@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <1e6df7760910280556q3d9f0394t87b192fbbbf9adad@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AE79A4E.3070404@googlemail.com> <11167f520910271955q45c4109dqd2ada4959ce58db8@mail.gmail.com> <1e6df7760910280245y7717d74cn4cefc6a581c6260f@mail.gmail.com> <20091028134640.58eb3cb9@ernst.jennejohn.org> <1e6df7760910280556q3d9f0394t87b192fbbbf9adad@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:56:25 +0100 Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Gary Jennejohn > <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> wrote: > > The qtcreator port was created on May 7, 2009. Seems to me that 7.2R > > is older than that. Obviously, qtcreator can't exist for 7.2R if the > > port didn't exist when it was released. > > Well, ok. Seems another case of "different systems, different > philosophies" here for me. > > My idea was that I was downloading the latest STABLE release of > FreeBSD and I assumed that the ports directory always applies to the > current STABLE version, noone should use a development version for > daily use, should one. > > Besides, the ports website doesn't list at all what versions of > FreeBSD include this port as opposed to Debian, for example; I don't > want to start a flamewar though. It's not really user-friendly, is it. > > I guess the minimum for my project will be FreeBSD 8.0 then. > Here's the URI you specified: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/qtcreator.tbz ^^^^^^^ release != stable The ports tree changes very quickly. Ports binaries for releases are created from a snapshot of the ports tree at the time of the release. Anything else is basically impossible. --- Gary Jennejohn
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