From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Feb 19 13: 3: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DFD37B400 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:03:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1JL2bP03992 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:02:37 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:02:58 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd alpha packages Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi, i've been doing some updating locally - what is the status of freebsd alpha packages ? it looks like the packages-4-stable tree has been updated recently, but i'm now quite confused as to how these things are working for alpha and i386. on i386 (as i was corrected some weeks ago) there is packages-4-stable -> (symlink to) packages-4.5-release on alpha there is packages-4.5-release -> (symlink to) packages-4-stable so they're exactly opposite in behaviour. on alpha the packages-4-stable tree appears to have fixed the problems with packages being generated into more than the All/ directory, but there is also a packages-5-current tree there that hasn't been updated since september 2001.. any reason for this ? particularly since packages in the alpha ports tree points at the packages-5-current tree (unlike i386, where it points at packages-4-stable!) regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message