From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 5 23:00:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6C61065697; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:00:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4694D8FC18; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pukruppa.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pukruppa.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o05Mb2ZS002773; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:37:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from localhost (ulrich@localhost) by pukruppa.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o05Mb1qQ002770; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:37:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:37:00 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa To: Martin Cracauer In-Reply-To: <20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org> Message-ID: References: <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org> <20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binary packages for releases and portupgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:00:42 -0000 On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote: > 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 Have a look at porting.openoffice.org/freebsd . You will find something that works for you. Greetings Uli. > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ > FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | Wuppertal | Germany