From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 3 12:12:04 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 3638316A401 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 12:12:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de) Received: from smtp104.plus.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.plus.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.53.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB36013C483 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 12:12:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de) Received: (qmail 34533 invoked from network); 3 May 2007 12:12:03 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.de; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=LwfqDqAqu+Q249Qb7Zldadr15d6g1fO2psp3gGwP08Qi+E+SsQmD8IYZYs8hCIGYw7FrRVJSrN1ImP9DNsU08CHZN3mVZtCT/P/JQVpmnHJr5zEKuIyb2BGpqwTX6c9wR4q7opAj3vNg++LuzbT3dXAzSJsxaSmUPxNg4DdHP4E= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.100?) (stevan_tiefert@84.165.75.156 with plain) by smtp104.plus.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 May 2007 12:12:02 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: RwnwFO0VM1nrcjDBf0HCKKDeUqoGfvCV2X6qXCPZO2aB5qM_Ii8eTYlm9_F8frq8KMViDuC1Mt8YsdV_5iA0qt6RZmeEzZgzgctp From: Stevan Tiefert To: racerx@makeworld.com In-Reply-To: <4639D012.80006@makeworld.com> References: <1178183489.833.9.camel@vagabund.w33> <4639D012.80006@makeworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 14:12:00 +0200 Message-Id: <1178194328.43472.10.camel@vagabund.w33> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 12:12:04 -0000 Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2007, 07:05 -0500 schrieb Chris: > 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. > > The problem I pointed to is, that at the RELEASE_6_2 two packages of firefox and openoffice.org exists and via pkg_add -r I receive the older package of them both, because the links in .../Latest/ are pointing to the older packages, but the newer packages are available for RELEASE_6_2 (I don't mean RELENG_6)! ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de