Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:26:42 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/ Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1061214070344.23138A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20061213193838.GA57916@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:44:13AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > I was glad I'd specified -PP .. every fetch from $subject directory > > failed. Checking manually, then and again tonight, I see that indeed > > only the versions of files that were (correctly) current at 4th December > > are still there now. The latest file date there says 17th November. > > > > Is this likely a temporary glitch, or do -stable packages only get > > updated to match the current ports tree after some expectable delay? > There's always a lag, of course (computers aren't yet infinitely fast > ;-). It's usually only a lag of a couple of days for 6.x, longer for > 5.x since it's a "legacy" branch and not our main focus of activity. As we're often enough reminded :) Thought I'd get it all up to date, then cvsup to 6.2 once released. > However the main FTP distribution server has been offline with > hardware failure for the past week or two, so I can't push out any of > the subsequent updates. Hopefully this will be resolved soon (it's > also holding up the 6.2 release cycle). Thanks Kris, may it Get Well Soon. BTW, just to try, I'd installed 6.1-R on another box over the net from the boot-only CD, and enjoyed being able to install heaps of packages from sysinstall that way, but was a bit dismayed to find it hadn't kept the fetched packages .. is there a way to ask sysinstall to do that? Cheers, Ian
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