Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 16:24:27 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Stevan Tiefert" <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> Cc: racerx@makeworld.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is 6.2-RELEASE/packages/Latest/ not latest enough? Message-ID: <cb5206420705030524q3a40d1e5je6251ccc731ab4e0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1178194328.43472.10.camel@vagabund.w33> References: <1178183489.833.9.camel@vagabund.w33> <cb5206420705030428j39b88882wd6964ffe693bd3bf@mail.gmail.com> <4639D012.80006@makeworld.com> <1178194328.43472.10.camel@vagabund.w33>
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On 5/3/07, Stevan Tiefert <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2007, 07:05 -0500 schrieb Chris: > > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > > On 5/3/07, Stevan Tiefert <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> 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)! Several versions of OOo are available from ports at the same time. Only one of them has a link in latest. The others have NO_LATEST_LINK set in their makefiles. You can contact OOo maintainers (maho primarily) and ask them to make newer versions available in latest. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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