From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 21:41:32 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 894FF642 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 54E511BD for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-19-65.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t0LLfOb4014449 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:41:25 -0600 Message-ID: <54C01E7B.6090403@hiwaay.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:47:39 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: frequency of pkg updates References: <54BFFB43.7060208@networktest.com> <54C01B26.1080407@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <54C01B26.1080407@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:41:32 -0000 On 01/21/15 15:33, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 2015/01/21 19:17, David Newman wrote: >> How often is the FreeBSD pkg repository updated? >> >> Asking because 'sudo pkg audit' sometimes shows vulnerabilities in one >> or more packages, yet 'sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade -f > name>' offers only to reinstall the vulnerable version. >> >> An updated pkg can take days to show up. The ports tree is updated much >> faster, but I'm trying to move to pkg where possible. (Yes, I know I >> could run poudriere and create a pkg repository, but I'm asking here >> about FreeBSD's pkg system.) >> >> This is on 10.1-RELEASE-p4 amd64. > Packages are built weekly from a snapshot of the ports taken on a > Wednesday at (I think) 01:00 UTC. It's definitely some time on > Wednesday though. The package builders then build all of the packages > for all the supported release branches + HEAD, which takes until some > time the following weekend. > > Thus if a package of interest to you updates on a Thursday, it can be > about 10 days before an updated package is available from the repos. > > More hardware is being procured to cut down the time it takes to build > packages, so the update frequency should improve. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hmmmm .... So the individual pkg's are actually built by .... who ? The pkg maintainer ? A central coordinating body ? Somebody/Something else ? Inquiring minds wanna know .... They might also be interested in contributing hardware if that would noticeably speed things up ;-) .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.