Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:42:28 +0300 (EEST) From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Cc: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just a ports related question Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606021635080.3247-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> In-Reply-To: <20060602132009.GC5765@soaustin.net>
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O Mark Linimon έγραψε στις Jun 2, 2006 : > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:14:24PM +0300, Achilleus Mantzios wrote: > > Provided that 6.1-RELEASE was out on Mon, 08 May 2006 wouldn't make more > > sense if packages like Python were updated? > > The delay was due to the fact that we froze the ports tree at a point > in the release cycle when we thought we were fairly close, source-wise. > Events proved that freezing to have been premature. Nevertheless, once > done, to re-freeze later on in the cycle (and thus pick up more than a > month's worth of port updates) would have added at least another week to > the release cycle. > Anyway, since the tag for ports is ".", (and it is a substantial property of the ports system, i.e. not following RELEASES and branches, but evolving on their own), would not it make more sense to arrange for packages in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/ to progressively match those of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-stable? or maybe the pkg_add command picked the right package location based on this criterion also?? In anyway, popular packages like Python in such ultra 'mainstream' scenarios (-RELEASE and the like), i think , people would expected them to be there compiled for their system. > We're trying to get this gap to be shorter but these things are hard to > predict. See http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/qa.html for a lot more about > all this. > > Finally, general ports issues should be discussed on freebsd-ports@ :-) I know, its just that i have more friends here :) (I hope to make some new ones in freebsd-ports@ :-) > > mcl > -- -Achilleus
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