Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 16:33:39 +0300 From: 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: <20040517163339.1ee89f23@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040517082610.GA2681@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040517014925.GB46196@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040517103305.539dd62b@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <20040517082610.GA2681@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, 17 May 2004 01:26:10 -0700 Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > 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: > > > > > Up-to-date INDEX files may now be downloaded from the following > > > locations: > > > > > > 4.x: > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX > > > > > > 5.x: > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-5 > > > > Hurray ! > > This will save about 40 minutes on my building machine. > > > > > 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. > > > > > > Now that this service is in place, INDEX files will probably only be > > > updated in the CVS repository for release builds. > > > > 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". Yes, I know, that's way I'm was building my own index (and now I know I have to continue to do that and probably to do some setup "a la bento" because of the dependencies, thanks). > 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. Yes, but once an hour is another thing :-) > 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 :) It looks nice, beta or not :) And is kind useful even if you're not a maintainer as one can check there before reporting a problem. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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