From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 3 12:06:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC8D016A402 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 12:06:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from omr7.networksolutionsemail.com (omr7.networksolutionsemail.com [205.178.146.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F52613C45D for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 12:06:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from mail.networksolutionsemail.com (ns-omr7.mgt.hosting.dc2.netsol.com [10.49.6.70]) by omr7.networksolutionsemail.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l43C6DYK019423 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 08:06:13 -0400 Received: (qmail 25673 invoked by uid 78); 3 May 2007 12:06:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.15.200?) (racerx@makeworld.com@71.113.183.18) by ns-omr7.lb.hosting.dc2.netsol.com with SMTP; 3 May 2007 12:06:13 -0000 Message-ID: <4639D012.80006@makeworld.com> Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 07:05:38 -0500 From: Chris User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070403) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Pantyukhin References: <1178183489.833.9.camel@vagabund.w33> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 OpenPGP: id=C01BC363 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stevan Tiefert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is 6.2-RELEASE/packages/Latest/ not latest enough? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 12:06:14 -0000 Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 5/3/07, Stevan Tiefert 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. -- Best regards, Chris Use extra care when cleaning on stairs.