From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 2 13:31:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: java@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFE4016A4F1; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:31:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) Received: from matrix.gatewaynet.com (host2.dynacom.ondsl.gr [62.103.35.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C2343D4C; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:31:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) Received: from matrix.gatewaynet.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by matrix.gatewaynet.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k52DgSew003369; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:42:28 +0300 Received: from localhost (achill@localhost) by matrix.gatewaynet.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id k52DgSKU003365; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:42:28 +0300 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:42:28 +0300 (EEST) From: Achilleus Mantzios To: Mark Linimon , In-Reply-To: <20060602132009.GC5765@soaustin.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just a ports related question X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:31:07 -0000 O Mark Linimon έγραψε στις Jun 2, 2006 : > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:14:24PM +0300, Achilleus Mantzios wrote: > > Provided that 6.1-RELEASE was out on Mon, 08 May 2006 wouldn't make more > > sense if packages like Python were updated? > > The delay was due to the fact that we froze the ports tree at a point > in the release cycle when we thought we were fairly close, source-wise. > Events proved that freezing to have been premature. Nevertheless, once > done, to re-freeze later on in the cycle (and thus pick up more than a > month's worth of port updates) would have added at least another week to > the release cycle. > Anyway, since the tag for ports is ".", (and it is a substantial property of the ports system, i.e. not following RELEASES and branches, but evolving on their own), would not it make more sense to arrange for packages in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/ to progressively match those of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-stable? or maybe the pkg_add command picked the right package location based on this criterion also?? In anyway, popular packages like Python in such ultra 'mainstream' scenarios (-RELEASE and the like), i think , people would expected them to be there compiled for their system. > We're trying to get this gap to be shorter but these things are hard to > predict. See http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/qa.html for a lot more about > all this. > > Finally, general ports issues should be discussed on freebsd-ports@ :-) I know, its just that i have more friends here :) (I hope to make some new ones in freebsd-ports@ :-) > > mcl > -- -Achilleus