From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 3 12:24:30 2007 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 DB04D16A400 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 12:24:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E9D13C46E for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 12:24:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so503630nze for ; Thu, 03 May 2007 05:24:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=SHME8tggPECd0OmW89OGAXbkd+ouZSTh1u83bxYHl7hGr+zvoGtdU86mSDyJbUWJGnInkVuYOjRweovRh5NWHSZ3X+jWVqfE84Y1u76n51Ys4JHDRel9gjIvcVZBv5wwTdD9VJEJhYfxXii5JHX1Y1u0urko8PIn/81k9BNwaTo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=ONTyRyFw3FBHS/5irDOMJ8BRZ97OjmdiGs3Ks5kcRlOa/AsHPC4x4eQFQIoibX2MzcGw7WU70xtoegGStQRA/ZfeF/JR8o+DSO/QBY6/AIrNO71xSE96k9aRhJC92mJbjmtr8t6z2PDL47kxdTVTpSx6eX4EhOLVGYg+ehR+9ms= Received: by 10.114.158.1 with SMTP id g1mr651928wae.1178195067561; Thu, 03 May 2007 05:24:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.194.10 with HTTP; Thu, 3 May 2007 05:24:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 16:24:27 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" Sender: infofarmer@gmail.com To: "Stevan Tiefert" In-Reply-To: <1178194328.43472.10.camel@vagabund.w33> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1178183489.833.9.camel@vagabund.w33> <4639D012.80006@makeworld.com> <1178194328.43472.10.camel@vagabund.w33> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 74210675d6f0238d Cc: racerx@makeworld.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is 6.2-RELEASE/packages/Latest/ not latest enough? 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: Thu, 03 May 2007 12:24:30 -0000 On 5/3/07, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2007, 07:05 -0500 schrieb Chris: > > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > > On 5/3/07, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > > >> Hello list, > > >> > > >> I have installed via pkg_add -r various packages for my 6.2-RELEASE. I > > >> have recognized that on this way I will not get always the newest > > >> package. > > > > > > You only get the packages compiled during the release > > > process. Newer packages are only built for 6-stable and > > > 7-current. The hard truth is that we don't have enough > > > human/hardware resources to keep 6.2 packages up-to-date. > > > > While the above may indeed be true - if you really feel the need to have > > the latest and greatest - that's 1/2 of what the ports and the upgrade > > tools that are given to you to are for. > > > > These same tools do allow you to create packages for your own needs. > > The problem I pointed to is, that at the RELEASE_6_2 two packages of > firefox and openoffice.org exists and via pkg_add -r I receive the older > package of them both, because the links in .../Latest/ are pointing to > the older packages, but the newer packages are available for RELEASE_6_2 > (I don't mean RELENG_6)! Several versions of OOo are available from ports at the same time. Only one of them has a link in latest. The others have NO_LATEST_LINK set in their makefiles. You can contact OOo maintainers (maho primarily) and ask them to make newer versions available in latest. Sorry for the inconvenience.