Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 19:35:06 +0200 From: Stevan Tiefert <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is 6.2-RELEASE/packages/Latest/ not latest enough? Message-ID: <1178213714.97441.11.camel@vagabund.w33> In-Reply-To: <20070503170649.GA86386@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1178183489.833.9.camel@vagabund.w33> <cb5206420705030428j39b88882wd6964ffe693bd3bf@mail.gmail.com> <1178193722.43472.6.camel@vagabund.w33> <20070503170649.GA86386@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2007, 13:06 -0400 schrieb Kris Kennaway: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:01:53PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2007, 15:28 +0400 schrieb Andrew Pantyukhin: > > > On 5/3/07, Stevan Tiefert <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > That is not that I mean! > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/packages/editors/openoffice.org-2.0.4.tbz > > exists. But the Link: > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/packages/Latest/openoffice.org.tbz > > is linked with > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/packages/All/openoffice.org-1.1.5_2.tbz > > > > It is a simple change with ln. Not more! openoffice.org 2.0 was already > > created during the RELEASE-6.2-process. > > > > Still again: Why is this link showing to an older package, when to the > > same time a newer package exist for the RELEASE_6_2 (not RELENG_6)? > > There are several openoffice versions in the ports tree, and the > maintainer determined that this is the one that should be used as the > "default" choice. Typically when there are more than one version, the > link points to the recommended stable release. > > That said, it's possible that the maintainer overlooked updating the > link when 2.0 became stable. Please check whether it is the same in > the packages-6.2-stable package sets (i.e. the current packages, not > the release packages which are now 6 months out of date) and if so > then follow up with the openoffice maintainer. > > Thanks, > Kris After that: setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/ and: pkg_add -r openoffice.org It still installs the version 1.1.5... It seems they forgot until now to update this link... I have written to openoffice.org@freebsd.org the maintainer of this port. Now I will wait until they answer... ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
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