Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 16:24:41 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just a ports related question Message-ID: <200606051625.03314.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606021818330.3623-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606021818330.3623-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
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On Friday 02 June 2006 16:23, Achilleus Mantzios wrote: > O Kris Kennaway =DD=E3=F1=E1=F8=E5 =F3=F4=E9=F2 Jun 2, 2006 : > > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:42:28PM +0300, Achilleus Mantzios wrote: > > > Anyway, since the tag for ports is ".", (and it is a substantial > > > property of the ports system, i.e. not following RELEASES and branche= s, > > > but evolving on their own), would not it make more sense to arrange > > > for packages in > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/ > > > to progressively match those of > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-stable? > > > > Please give us about 30 new i386/amd64/sparc64/ia64 machines first, > > thanks :-) > > Just some notes: > > 1) Whould it take 30 new i386/amd64/sparc64/ia64 machines > to just copy packages from > /ports/i386/packages-6-stable > to > /ports/i386/packages-6.1-release Not everyone regards having their packages completely up-to-date as an end = in=20 itself. For them the current situation is actually quite sensible. The=20 packages in "packages-6.1-release" and on the CD are all built from the sa= me=20 snapshot of the ports tree. And that snapshot is taken at a time when a=20 particular effort is being made not to break anything.=20 If "packages-6.1-release" were kept up-to-date with ports, a "pkg_add -r"=20 could bring in packages built many months after the those installed with th= e=20 release, and cause horrible dependency problems.=20 =20
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