From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 1 13:11:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E31016A4D0 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 13:11:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0AE43FA3 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 13:11:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 5E9623AB7; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 16:11:56 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: "SWIT" References: <20031005080039.GA23414@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <000c01c3a0b7$8eef69a0$0100000a@Biggie> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 01 Nov 2003 16:11:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <000c01c3a0b7$8eef69a0$0100000a@Biggie> Message-ID: <44u15npzdv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: why are theynot updated WAS Re: samba 3.0, FreeBSD 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:11:57 -0000 "SWIT" writes: > : > > > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 11:06, Mike Maltese wrote: > > > > > It's in > > > > > /usr/ports/net/samba-devel/ > > > > > > > > > Yes, but the port hasn't been updated to the release version. > > newbie question. > why isn't the ports updated ? Seems alot of times the ports is outdated by a > version or more. > I mean if everyone is always saying its in the ports should they not be > better upkeeped ? It's a volunteer effort. However, it's generally pretty good at being up-to-date. In this case, for example, the ports system has the latest official release in the "samba" port, and the most recent development release in the "samba-devel" port. The samba-devel port has often taken a couple of weeks to bring in the latest version, but that doesn't seem unreasonable. > Also why is such an old version of perl 5.003 still in the freebsd base when > 5.8 is out ? For the most obvious reason: some people still need it.