From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 14:35:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE881065675 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:35:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 269A08FC23; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:35:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <4878C131.7060600@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:35:29 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michel Talon References: <20080712130415.GA97957@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20080712130415.GA97957@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading through packages: an experience. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:35:31 -0000 Michel Talon wrote: > Hello, > > Since KDE recently appeared in the Latest prebuilt packages Well, it's always been there, except when it could not be built. > Now the problems. They come from the fact that the Latest packages are > not always coherent between themselves or with the libraries in > FreeBSD-7.0. No, they are. In fact this is a key design feature, and the same reason why sometimes certain packages do not appear on the FTP site (if they did appear they would be necessarily *out* of sync). Similarly they are always built against recent versions of -STABLE, by design. Glad to hear your experience was generally positive though. Kris