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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2006 14:02:52 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
To:        "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gnome 2.14 not in main packages yet?
Message-ID:  <44749FCC.90003@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1t9kyjtwjuvn7.1aq12mn5d2r8.dlg@40tude.net>
References:  <1t9kyjtwjuvn7.1aq12mn5d2r8.dlg@40tude.net>

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Scott I. Remick wrote:
> I'm trying to install Gnome 2.14 from packages on a test system using
> pkg_add -r. According to the FAQ, this should be possible:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1
> 
> However, I keep getting 2.12. Was the FAQ updated prematurely, and 2.14
> simply isn't on the main site yet? I even tried setting PACKAGESITE to
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages/Latest/ (since I'm on
> 6.1-RELEASE so it was pulling the old packages by default) but still got
> 2.12 even with that.
> 
> I know I can install from Marcus' tinderbox, so I'm trying that now... but
> seems like it should work from the main FTP site according to the FAQ. ;)

There's always a delay since we have a limited amount of package build 
clusters, and we have more to do on them than build packages for FTP. 
Additionally, around release times, FTP publishing is frozen to ensure 
we have enough space to post the release.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
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