Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:17:10 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg must be version 1.3.8 or greater Message-ID: <542318B6.3000206@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <44vbocyjcp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <lvr4sc$9f6$1@ger.gmane.org> <5422B1C5.1030400@hiwaay.net> <44vbocyjcp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 09/24/14 13:16, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> writes:
>
>> The portsnap messes with pkg's logic about what needs upgrading & what
>> doesn't, there have been other posts on this topic over the last
>> several weeks (notably from me)
> Aside from the fact that the package repositories lag behind the ports
> tree (which is unavoidable until someone manages to procure some
> infinitely fast computers on which the build clusters can run), I can't
> tell which posts are in question.
>
>> .... Ports & Pkg's are usually updated
>> by the maintainers about weekly, ports often/usually on Wednesday,
>> Pkg's on Saturday.
> Maintainers make changes whenever they want (except when a release is
> being prepared, in which case major changes are discouraged, a process
> often referred to as a "slush"). Packages are being built continuously,
> and a full set seems to be taking three or four days at the moment.
>
>> My experience is that if you wait until Saturday,
>> your 'pkg-upgrade' will work as desired & you will be off to the
>> races.
> If your particular ports updates happen to be getting committed
> mid-week, that sounds about right. The build cluster will be fairly
> certain to have built them into packages three days later. But, again,
> there's no actual schedule.
>
>> Alternatively, you can 'pkg install -yf ....' your pkg & move
>> on immediately .... In general, for me, you should do any pkg-upgrades
>> *before* you mess w/ ports.
> I would expect that to be less annoying than the other way around.
Agreed :-) .... That was kinda the point of the whole post. I do think I
am pretty close to right on my days of (most) commits, I got that from
an earlier (a few weeks) post on this very topic ....
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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