From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 3 12:28:05 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 6356216A403 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 12:28:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de) Received: from smtp108.plus.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp108.plus.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.53.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0736813C45D for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 12:28:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de) Received: (qmail 75974 invoked from network); 3 May 2007 12:28:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.de; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=IJsuKLJ4IL8dRh5XpGCy6rM+OAaxOksTbEz3tx9jO4+YCGGBKAF3HYzUBqWagOOoOH8by2mdbsSq9IbWn1RC6vAibjAFLYjWgfUpR3f0pVWx2OQHGO8lJQjKWlx0GWJtpkQjVsoVAiTMgasInuzDYmxSbb5o8V80kAGxOYL93lo= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.100?) (stevan_tiefert@84.165.75.156 with plain) by smtp108.plus.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 May 2007 12:28:03 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: e3TzjO0VM1kqFJZLTAvIst._hAR_aQvLpsUDkjgOWNseT3kLXOJR5fuui2egOMCkBEWCKsaQBGMJgrziTuVsE.gkhoK.dCSDAUOL From: Stevan Tiefert To: Andrew Pantyukhin In-Reply-To: References: <1178183489.833.9.camel@vagabund.w33> <4639D012.80006@makeworld.com> <1178194328.43472.10.camel@vagabund.w33> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 14:27:58 +0200 Message-Id: <1178195286.43472.12.camel@vagabund.w33> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: racerx@makeworld.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is 6.2-RELEASE/packages/Latest/ not latest enough? [SOLVED] 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 12:28:05 -0000 Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2007, 16:24 +0400 schrieb Andrew Pantyukhin: > 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. THANKS! THANKS! THANKS! ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de