From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 6: 8: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1A6737B427 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 06:07:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 59392 invoked by uid 100); 27 Feb 2002 14:07:39 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15484.59435.123814.607345@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:07:39 -0600 To: "Dan Trainor" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports updates In-Reply-To: <124271652@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Trainor types: > I'm not familiar enough to know when ports should "usually" be updated, > I guess it depends on the port maintainer, huh? Anyway, I was wondering > when XFree86 4.2.0 would be part of the latest ports collection? Any > way of knowing? Yes, I'll get there in a minute. > Sorry if this question is a bit lame, I'm sure I'll learn in due time. Nope, it's not lame at all. Ports are not necessarily maintained by someone who can commit upgrades, but by a cast of thousands. Well, maybe not literally, but there are a lot of such people. It's up to each maintainer as to how often they update a port. That also depends in part on how often/much the software in question changes. Finally, there may be reasons that a port is *not* updated, like the new version doesn't run on the maintainers hardware because of bugs, so they are waiting until that's fixed. The only way to get answers to such question is to ask the maintainer. If you do "make maintainer" in the port directory, it'll give you the email address to send the question to. And, to do the maintainers a good deed, it also gives you a place to send patches that fix problems with the port. If you PR them, that may require the maintainer to test them then resubmit the PR with "maintainer update" attached so that it'll be committed quickly. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message