Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:20:29 -0400 From: Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Nikolay Pavlov <quetzal@zone3000.net> Subject: Re: upgrade 6.2 to xorg 7.2 Message-ID: <4669BA0D.7080306@seclark.us> In-Reply-To: <20070608195526.GC18546@soaustin.net> References: <20070608182421.CBAF545042@ptavv.es.net> <4669A126.3010703@seclark.us> <20070608191510.GA21402@zone3000.net> <4669AD5D.4080501@seclark.us> <20070608195526.GC18546@soaustin.net>
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Mark Linimon wrote: >On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:26:21PM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: > > >>Thats another question - why aren't packages released simultaneously >>with the ports update? >> >> > >There's a circular dependency here. The ports tree is updated by checkins, >which is then pushed to the package building system, which then does >complete package builds -- which can take a week or more, depending. > >We don't have any way to tell the package system "here is what the ports >tree will be a week from now"; it's simply driven by cvs checkout, and >after that it's simply a matter a machine horsepower to crank them out. > >We have a fair amount of i386 and amd64 horsepower (the latter is a recent >development); we have a grossly insufficient amount of sparc64 horsepower, >and so the packages are ~3 weeks behind. > >mcl >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > So I should wait a about week after I do a cvsup of ports - then hopefully most of the packages will be there - right? Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)
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