Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:21:34 -0500 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Binary packages for releases and portupgrade Message-ID: <20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> References: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote on Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:58:57PM -0800: > Martin Cracauer wrote: > > It's time to bite the bullet. My 1.3 GHz Pentium-M Notebook just > > can't keep up with the port building. I need OpenOffice and stuff and > > the party is really over at that point. I need something with binary > > packages. > > > > Do I understand that correctly if I run 8.0 release I get to have > > prebuilt binaries as recognized by portupgrade? > > Well, 8-release or 8-stable should both be fine for this purpose, for > most packages, with portupgrade or portmaster. My understanding is > that we've given up trying to produce packages for openoffice on all > branches. Are you saying there are binary packages for 8-stable? I thought I can only have them for -RELEASE? > > What happens to the minor security updates? Can I follow TRELENG_8_0 > > and port portsupgrade recognize this as something that uses 8-release > > binary packages? > > RELENG_8_0 is _exactly_ 8.0-RELEASE, and will never change. If you > want 8-stable, RELENG_8 is the way to go. Otherwise you will need to > update the tag each time a new security branch is created. RELENG_8 will lift be out of binary ports, at least as far as portupgrade is concerned. RELENG_8_0 will have emergency fixes AFAIK and I was hoping that I could run that and make portupgrade to the right thing (recognize the binary packages a insert them appropriately). If we have binary packages for 8-stable and/or if I can coerce portupgrade to use 8-release packages on 8-stable that would be fine, too. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/
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