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Date:      Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:10:59 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau@mawit.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re:
Message-ID:  <1061399458.703.1.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <3233.62.78.135.6.1061393191.squirrel@office.mawit.com>
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On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:26, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote:
> Hi!
>=20
> Obviously nobody has really tried to use the "package"
>=20
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/glib-2.2=
.2.tgz
>=20
> because it is actually not a package but the source tar file. Please, rep=
lace
> it with
> a real package instead. As it is now it breaks any and all chances for
> pkg_update.

If you're tracking releases (i.e. 5.1-RELEASE, 4.8-RELEASE), then it's
safe to go with packages.  However, if you're tracking a dynamic branch
such as -STABLE or -CURRENT, you should really be using ports.  In that
case, please see the second part of:

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1

Joe

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