From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 20:27:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B377316A526 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:27:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57BDE43D1D for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:25:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.4) with SMTP id HAA24208; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:26:43 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:26:42 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20061213193838.GA57916@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:27:32 -0000 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