Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:19:39 -0400 From: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When will binary packages be back? Message-ID: <201304101519390199.00EB2234@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <201304101739.LAA29126@lariat.net> References: <201304101739.LAA29126@lariat.net>
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On 4/10/2013 at 11:39 AM Brett Glass wrote: |For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long |waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating |small systems. But even though the development server security |breach is now long past, there are no published binary packages for |FreeBSD 9.1. When will they be back? ============= Additionally, for me, building from ports for me has tended to pull in many, many X-windows support files when they are not needed. Specifically, I run a non-windowing system using command line tools. When I tried to compile Samba from ports, I finally killed the 'make' stage after three hours of compiling X-windows stuff. Nowhere had I ever spcified that the system was running X or any other windowing system. Yet, there it was, three hours of wasted time. I never had such issues when installing from packages.
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