From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 23:00:18 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 574D216A40F for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:00:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDA443C9F for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:58:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEEC81A3C1C; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:00:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4F26951606; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:00:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:00:17 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ian Smith Message-ID: <20061213230017.GB58514@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20061213193838.GA57916@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway 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 23:00:18 -0000 --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:26:42AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > 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 Dece= mber > > > are still there now. The latest file date there says 17th November. > > >=20 > > > Is this likely a temporary glitch, or do -stable packages only get > > > updated to match the current ports tree after some expectable delay? >=20 > > 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. >=20 > As we're often enough reminded :) Thought I'd get it all up to date, > then cvsup to 6.2 once released. >=20 > > 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). >=20 > Thanks Kris, may it Get Well Soon. =20 >=20 > 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?=20 I dont think so, sysinstall isn't really intended as a post-install package management tool. Kris=20 --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFgIYAWry0BWjoQKURAiyLAKDcAghVHaptDjT2JY3c3ygkhMraUgCgyVg7 i5xlYuhOQtDaoG/792kBYcc= =neH+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R--