Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:27:31 -0400 From: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> To: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Cc: Otto <kais.deliverymail@googlemail.com>, Kai, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Subject: Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content Message-ID: <20080908222731.1e360766.bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080908225008.GA28908@soaustin.net> References: <20080905213656.BDB444500F@ptavv.es.net> <20080906141423.N439@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1220762797.29265.43.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <20080907080624.078e7e13.bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> <20080908225008.GA28908@soaustin.net>
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On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:50:08 -0500 linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 08:06:24AM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote: > > Additionally, I've never seen a clear way of synchronizing a > > local ports tree to that used to create the "LATEST" packages. > > There's really not a way to easily track this, especially with the > fact that we tend to run incremental updates. The best approximation > we can give you is e.g.: > > http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/amd64-6-latest/cvsdone > > but if there were manual updates to the tree, then the cvsdone files > may be out-of-date. In addition, if there were checkins in progress > as of that time, the tree may be inconsistent in the first place :-/ > > I used to have a page that indexed those and a lot of other statistics > but it is currently broken. I need to put fixing that on the TODO list. If its not an easy thing to do then its probably not worth spending Release Engineering time on it. Personally, I quit using packages in the 2.x-3.x days since there were far less problems building everything from sources and not trying to mix pre-built packages and locally built ports. That was the only reason I mentioned the syncronization. Thanks for taking the time to explain why it isn't an easy thing to do! Randy --
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