Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 01:26:10 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Up-to-date INDEXes may now be downloaded from www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040517082610.GA2681@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040517103305.539dd62b@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> References: <20040517014925.GB46196@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040517103305.539dd62b@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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--lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:33:05AM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Sun, 16 May 2004 18:49:25 -0700 > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: >=20 > > Up-to-date INDEX files may now be downloaded from the following > > locations: > >=20 > > 4.x: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX =20 > >=20 > > 5.x: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-5 >=20 > Hurray ! > This will save about 40 minutes on my building machine. >=20 > > These are updated once an hour upon the successful completion of the > > INDEX tinderbox builds. They are built for the top of the RELENG_4 > > and HEAD branches, but will mostly be suitable for other supported > > releases as well. > >=20 > > Now that this service is in place, INDEX files will probably only be > > updated in the CVS repository for release builds. >=20 > Could you explain this ? I think my English plays me a trick and I don't > understand what this mean. If I cvsup do I get the last good INDEX / > INDEX-5 ? Or it's the opposite ? In the past INDEX files have only been updated in CVS very infrequently (once a month or more). It's never been the case that cvsup gives you "the last good INDEX". Updating INDEXes once a month was pretty useless for most purposes since users either don't need to use the INDEX, or need it to be up-to-date. The only remaining need for INDEX files in CVS is for releases, so that release users get the INDEX file for that ports collection. > BTW, is there any reason for which new things like pointyhat.freebsd.org > are not introduced to the "large public" ? Yes, because pointyhat is still in beta :) Kris --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAqHciWry0BWjoQKURAj2BAKDjneVpr3wFFyBDKsMxBFzus7vK8gCeJPQE 7Unh8wZXhbmSSsj11fBmISQ= =00UG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ--
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