Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:49:31 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Too many binary packages are missing Message-ID: <AANLkTin=tw-%2BoVFCmPi48PbxJh5-HcJAuwRjwxzy8dMO@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimav68octR663Yg48wq0wiuuJWZt5XmqtyNUZHJ@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTim-b9kMphB5=h2cHR1yJWZTsZWXjie7jrTP-qQw@mail.gmail.com> <4CB67672.8070102@rawbw.com> <AANLkTimav68octR663Yg48wq0wiuuJWZt5XmqtyNUZHJ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/14/10, b. f. <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 10/14/10, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote: >> On 10/13/2010 17:24, b. f. wrote: > ... >> 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? > > As far as I know, there are no packages for 8.1-STABLE on the project > servers, although probably both the packages for 8.1-RELEASE and > 8-STABLE will work in your case. I should mention that some third-party servers have packages that aren't on the project servers; for example, you can find packages for some versions of 8.1-STABLE on: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com And of course there may be other sources, too. b. 8.1-STABLE is closer to 8.1-RELEASE > than it is to 8-STABLE at this point (the release engineering team is > hoping to release 8.2 around the end of the year), so if you want to > be conservative, use the (older) packages for 8.1-RELEASE. Of course, > you can also build your own packages via Ports. > >> 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. > > There are, at least for the supported releases, and for snapshots of > 9-CURRENT and 6,7,8-STABLE. Occasionally the latest version of a > commonly-used package breaks on -STABLE, but it is usually fixed > fairly quickly. > > b. >
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