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Date:      Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:05:26 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@rcn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Compiling Packages
Message-ID:  <20040310110526.GA94997@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0403100540560.3804@Treneq>
References:  <Pine.WNT.4.58.0403100540560.3804@Treneq>

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on
> FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that
> they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to know if I wanted
> to donate, or words to that affect.
>=20
> In any case, would that refer to donating an actual computer, or simply
> donating computer time? I have three computers, only one running FreeBSD
> at this time. I certainly am not going to give away any of my computers,
> but I would be willing to share time on one of them if that would help.

What would be useful is multiple (e.g. at least half a dozen) fast
machines with good network connectivity.  Individual machines aren't
much help, I'm afraid.  Thanks for the offer though.

kris

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