Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:37:41 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        m p <sumirati@yahoo.de>
Cc:        murray@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: building the alpha ports (was Re: cvsup in 4.5-RC2)
Message-ID:  <20020122223741.A71778@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20020122211752.52736.qmail@web13302.mail.yahoo.com>; from sumirati@yahoo.de on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:17:52PM %2B0100
References:  <20020122211752.52736.qmail@web13302.mail.yahoo.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:17:52PM +0100, m p wrote:
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > >
> > > Don't worry about that.  The ports freeze is scheduled for 26 January,
> > > and our fantastic ports team will build all packages for the release
> > > at that time.
> > 
> > Make that "x86 packages". It looks like there will be no packages
> > at all for Alpha given that the Alpha ports cluster is somewhat
> > mysteriously AWOL it seems.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I renew my offer to spend for the building process a AlphaStation with 333 MHz
> and a 4 GB disk (perhaps I am able to get some more .. but that is not for sure
> at the moment) and 256 MB RAM (that is all i can recall from memory about the
> machine).

I just saw a mail that at least one of the Alpha port building machines
is back online. There is sufficient hardware out there (in the US) but
they had been moved (?) and needed local people to tweak them. People,
I might add, already starved for free time


W/
-- 
|   / o / /_  _   		email: 	wilko@FreeBSD.org
|/|/ / / /(  (_)  Bulte		Arnhem, the Netherlands

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020122223741.A71778>