Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:18:10 -0700 From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> To: bf1783@gmail.com Cc: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Too many binary packages are missing Message-ID: <4CB67672.8070102@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim-b9kMphB5=h2cHR1yJWZTsZWXjie7jrTP-qQw@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTim-b9kMphB5=h2cHR1yJWZTsZWXjie7jrTP-qQw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/13/2010 17:24, b. f. wrote: >> I am updating i386 system (portupgrade -aP) and whole lot of binary >> packages are missing. >> For example, gcc-4.5.0, qt4-corelib are examples of large packages that >> are missing that don't require too many dependencies and are very basic. >> >> I know, it may be caused by failed dependencies, copyright restrictions, >> etc. But it's hard to imagive why they are missing for these two: no >> copyright restrictions, and almost no dependencies. >> >> This unfortunately slows down many people. >> Is there any solution to this problem? Maybe people just forget about >> this build server and some minor fix wil help? >> > Maybe some other ports have licenses that prevent the distribution of > packages, but not lang/gcc45 and devel/qt4-corelib. Where did you > instruct portupgrade and the base system package tools to look for > them? Is your ports tree up-to-date? I see, on the ftp servers: > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/lang/gcc-4.5.2.20100923.tbz > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/lang/gcc-4.5.2.20100923.tbz > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/lang/gcc-4.5.0.20090924.tbz > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/lang/gcc-4.5.1.20100701.tbz > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/lang/gcc-4.5.2.20100923.tbz > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-current/lang/gcc-4.5.2.20100923.tbz > > Also: > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/devel/qt4-corelib-4.6.3.tbz > > ... > My system is 8.1-stable and portupgrade looks at http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-stable No sure what is packages-8-stable, shouldn't it be the same? System should at least have binaries of all packages that are required to install kde4/gnome/firefox/thunderbird -- major x11 environments and programs people use. Yuri
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