From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 02:27:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6070F1065678 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 02:27:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-unix@embarqmail.com) Received: from mailrelay.embarq.synacor.com (mailrelay.embarq.synacor.com [208.47.184.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078E48FC0A for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 02:27:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-unix@embarqmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; d=embarqmail.com; s=s012408; c=relaxed/simple; q=dns/txt; i=@embarqmail.com; t=1220927253; h=From:Subject:Date:To:Mime-Version:Content-Type; bh=Thk4J58dTIYdBRLU3YiA7sBztHM=; b=NERpF8bIa2+f8qT5hZwS4lnVGKqcxr1ctKUf8lXHn2p5UjXQ5sDfMr3tTb2FSj01 04tzj3liAxDe7UZnyxpLm0U/r5AIbK0m2n7jFBlG4UonQaAjB0s1EyGA5jnp3L3n; X_CMAE_Category: 0,0 Undefined,Undefined X-CNFS-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=332kiUksK-qG6zCYugoA:9 a=GS4vNcmTdwACYocdm0F5A5eo_-sA:4 a=0Rv9XxPPRogA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine Authentication-Results: smtp09.embarq.synacor.com smtp.user=rpratt1950@embarqmail.com; auth=pass (LOGIN) Received: from [74.4.78.58] ([74.4.78.58:64365] helo=kt.weeeble.com) by mailrelay.embarq.synacor.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.33 r(25932/25934)) with ESMTPA id 53/12-10881-41FD5C84; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:27:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:27:31 -0400 From: Randy Pratt To: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Otto , Kai, Ken Smith , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ian Smith Subject: Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:27:35 -0000 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 --